"Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture."

-- Anthony Burgess

#Design Quotes #Culture Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.”
“Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw ...”
“Heaven is going to be a vast, colorful tapestry of living things. God is a God of life....Does this seem too childish and silly to believe? I certainly hope so, because that's a sure sign that it's true.”
“The shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they made to her Jesus... How happy is the loving soul when it has found Jesus with Mary, His Mother! They who know the Tabernacle where He dwells, they who receive Him into their souls, know that His conversation is full of divine sweetness, His consolation ravishing, His peace superabundant, and the familiarity of His love and His Heart ineffable”
“I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.”
“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”
“You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You don't bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay.”
“I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.”

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