"I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings for my shame and feebleness."

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.”
“I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.”
“People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?”
“It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I'm glad it turned out that I'm both these things.”
“The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.”
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
“Every time I run, it's with the mindset that if I die at this race it's OK.”
“It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid.”

Source : "Devil's Advocate: Viswanathan Anand on mind games". Interview with Karan Thapar, en.chessbase.com. May 13, 2008.

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