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Christian Wiman
"The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what we have or have not done: this is life as landscape, or life as résumé. But life is incremental, and though a worthwhile life is a gathering together of all that one is, good and bad, successful and not, the paradox is that we can never really see this one thing that all of our increments (and decrements, I suppose) add up to."
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Source : "My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer". Book by Christian Wiman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.
Christian Wiman
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“The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.”
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“The pain pushes you, until the vision pulls you”
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“LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.”
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“My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.”
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“Each year is a new year.”
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“If you can give it, I can take it 'Cause if this heart is gonna break it's gonna take a lot to break it I know tonight, somebody's gonna win the fight So if you're so tough, come on and prove it Your heart is down for the count and you know you're gonna lose it Tonight you're gonna go down in flames Just like Jesse James”
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“I have to be a father first and a husband first.”