"You can't eat your friends and have them too"

-- Budd Schulberg

“I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.”
“The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.”

Source : Ed Silvoso (2010). “Anointed for Business (Large Print 16pt)”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.”
“I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.”
“Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.”
“No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.”
“Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.”
“How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it.”

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