"Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept."

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Source : Alma Katsu (2012). “The Reckoning: Book Two of the Taker Trilogy”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

Alma Katsu

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“I'm kind of a creature of the alt-weekly universe - my real education into higher culture was acquired in coffee shops, reading those papers, digging into that lively mishmash of opinion for drift, a sense of what to see, what to hear, what to read, etc. - and I'd like to think that scene's still vital, although I understand there's been a fair amount of conglomerating, which would seem to undercut its radical roots, its funky local flavor. I'd encourage any writer with an eye for life and an ear for prose to give it a try. You can work out your chops just fine in newsprint.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“If the president Donald Trump had connected the Jerusalem question to some other positions, linking it to Israeli and Palestinian behavior or putting the Jerusalem statement in a larger context of U.S. policy, it could have potentially advanced the peace process. But I don't see how singling it out might help.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.”
“Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in.”
“Culture hides more than it reveals and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from it's own participants. Years of study have convinced me that the real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.”

Source : "The Silent Language". Book by Edward T. Hall, 1959.
“The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.”
“When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.”
“Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride”

Source : "Aitken 'will not be priest'" by Jamie Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 1999.

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