"I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say."

-- Ross Douthat

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“Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.”
“An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.”
“It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.”
“It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality...”

Source : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Laura Betti (1989). “Pier Paolo Pasolini: a future life”
“We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?”
“Sex is funny and love is serious.”
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
“The glory of His Father which our Lord sought above all else on earth is still the object of all His desires in the Blessed Sacrament. It is safe to say that Jesus Christ has clothed Himself with the sacramental state in order to continue honoring and glorifying His Father.”

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