"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."

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Manuel Puig

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“I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.”
“Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them”
“The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.”
“The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.”
“It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.”
“Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.”
“The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put Godâ€™s law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire worldâ€¦.The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.”
“Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.”

Source : John Bevere (2007). “Honor's Reward: How to Attract God's Favor and Blessing”, p.89, Messenger International

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