"If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they are."

-- Frederick Buechner

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“The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.”
“We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.”
“The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He is not always on the defensiveâ€¦ To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defendingâ€¦ The man who is truly meek never pities himself, he is never sorry for himself. He never talks to himself and says, â€œYou are having a hard time, how unkind these people are not to understand you.”
“I wasn't the most popular kid in school.”
“That's all the difficulty and the challenge and the battle: to look through this mechanical thing, these bits of glass and metal, at someone. And not lose the sense that this shape is a human being.”
“Bitterness is like a weed. Remember how hard it always was to pull out thistles once they root? Remember how deep those roots grow, and how if you just snapped off the end of it, the plant would grow right back? You have to dig down deep inside. Let God search your heart. Let Him show you what's there and help you root out all that bitterness. Then you can pray for forgiveness.”
“Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

Source : Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.73, Vintage

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