"There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Writing Quotes #Stupidity Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.”
“Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.”

Source : Chuck Pfarrer (2003). “Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL”, p.392, Random House
“It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When you think of the Exorcist, you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.”
“The early evangelists recognized they could help the Jesus story make sense if Jesus was seen as someone who was chosen to appease the wrath of God - hence, the 'anointed one' who could do what no one else could do.”

Source : Doug Pagitt (2012). “A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope-filled, Open-armed, Alive-and-well Faith for the Left Out, Left Behind, and Let Down in us All”, p.99, John Wiley & Sons
“Since 1787 the principle of freedom of religion has been attacked but never overthrown. Keeping education in the United States free of sectarian influence has long been one of the primary struggles of believers in freedom of religion.”
“It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.”

Source : Franz Alexander (1960). “The Western Mind in Transition: An Eyewitness Story”, New York, Random House [1960]
“Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.”

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