"Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it."

-- John Lewis Gaddis

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“Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.”
“If I wasn't talking, I wouldn't know what to say.”
“Light is everything in the world to men's eyes Light thirsts after light yes, the soul, twin to the stars moves through space to find, be made eternal by light and grasp, trembling, the sun a torch handed on from runner to runner through the millennia.”
“There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, "natura naturans." There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.”
“The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.”
“To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one's desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns.”
“I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.”
“She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.”

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