"Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write."

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Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

Julien Green

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“Get off your sofa and pick your jawbones off the floor, that was a world-class save.”
“A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.”
“The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.”
“When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.”

Source : Television interview by David Frost, 19 May 1977
“To pray well is the better half of study.”
“Please donâ€™t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”
“If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.”
“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.202, Macmillan

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