"Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Mean Quotes #Church Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs.”
“In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.”

Source : Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
“I like hanging out at non-showbizzy places.”

Source : "'30 Rock's' Judah Friedlander: 5 Things You Didn't Know About Me" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 12, 2012.
“When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.”
“It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.”

Source : "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.
“Life is a journey through a foreign land.”
“Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified in an attempt to stop it.”
“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality - your soul, if you will - is as bright and shining as any that has ever been. Bright as Shakespeareâ€™s, bright as Gandhiâ€™s, bright as Mother Theresaâ€™s. Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”

Source : "George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates". Commencement Speech, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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