"I'm often drawn to darker subjects. There's a lot of awful stuff in literature - and in life. Every day I read the paper and think how much I'd love certain people to just go away. But the flipside is that much of life is really good and sweet and tender and true. That's another thing pets teach us. That, and the importance of holding on to those good things in life."

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Kate Klise

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“We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not argue about worldliness; we witness. We do not discuss philosophy; we preach the Gospel. We do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck them as brands from the burning. We ask no man's patronage. We beg no man's money. We fear no man's frownLet no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Ghost.”
“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.”
“I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.”
“Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.”

Source : "Once a Runner: A Novel". Book by John L. Parker, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.
“The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.”
“so go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.”

Source : "A Night in Tunisia". Jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1961.
“I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.”
“Schrodinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge-and a very good dodge too.”

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