"I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time. I admire her great courage in leaving so much unsaid and asking the reader to really engage her brain."

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Monica Ali

#Leaving Quotes #Brain Quotes #Asking Quotes

“What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.”
“We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.”

Source : C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.31, Multnomah
“There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game.”
“Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.”
“I got into music when I was 12, 13.”
“If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.”
“Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.”
“It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.”

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