Quotes
Authors
Katherine Anne Porter

"Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government."

-- Katherine Anne Porter

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“Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.”
“Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete”
“We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.”
“The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.”
“You canâ€™t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You canâ€™t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You canâ€™t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we canâ€™t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphereâ€”North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbeanâ€”is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.”
“I don't want to be famous, or recognizable,”

Source : "Here's why Sia hides her face with wigs and bows" by Megan Willett, www.businessinsider.com. September 7, 2016.
“I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.”
“When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.”

Source : Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.87, A&C Black

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