"Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue."

-- Paul Fry

#Ideas Quotes #Tradition Quotes #Danger Quotes

“Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.”
“The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.”

Source : Elizabeth Knox (2014). “The Vintner's Luck”, p.187, Victoria University Press
“Political ***** is not unlike the sexual kind: difficult to define, but you know it when you see it”
“You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.”
“Are all ends of life so sad?”
“I move for a creed for all our denominations made out of Scripture quotations, pure and simple. That would be impregnable against infidelity and Appolyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. Let us make it simpler and plainer for people to get into the Kingdom of God.”
“I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.”
“Every girl is beautiful, it's society that's ugly.”

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