"Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace? Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me."

-- Joan of Arc

#Grace Quotes #May Quotes

“But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.”
“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent.”
“There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.”
“American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.”
“Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.”
“Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.”
“I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.”
“I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.”

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