"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.”
“Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me. But a life without a tale is like a sea without salt. How do you live?" ... Unconsciously, he clenched his fist over his ring. "I live." "Another?" Foamfollower returned. "In two words, a story sadder than the first. Say no more -- with one word you will make me weep.”
“I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.”
“One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.”

Source : Susan Ertz (1931). “The Story of Julian”, New York D. Appleton 1931.
“The right good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey.”
“Please. Thank you. Learn it. Love it. Or be disappointed.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.”

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