"Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men."

-- Janet Morris

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“Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.”
“To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.”
“Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.”
“The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.”

Source : "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, pp. 78-79, (One-volume edition), 1937.
“A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.”
“In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only after painting them that I sometimes felt that the grey was not yet satisfactory and that another layer of paint was needed.”
“A word only writes Its night and rides Its dream.”

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