"Jim Jones used highly-edited videos and photos of Jonestown, showing what a supposed Eden it was. People were interviewed smiling and working in the fields, telling other church members to hurry down and join them. These interviews were staged; the people were told exactly what to say. Truth is, Jonestown never even produced enough food to feed everyone, and people were going hungry."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Julia Scheeres

#People Quotes #Church Quotes #Hungry Quotes

“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.”
“In Quebec, we can no longer increase taxes if we want to stay competitive.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Art is not to throw light but to be light...”

Source : Kenneth Patchen (1946). “Sleepers awake”
“In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God.”
“In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: three exciting novels: The moving target, The way some people die [and] The barbarous coast”
“What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.”
“The present grows within the boundaries of the past.”

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