"The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father."

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Source : Frank Peretti (2012). “Prophet: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

Frank Peretti

#Pain Quotes #Father Quotes #Lying Quotes

“It [9/11 tragedy] was the spectacle, what al-Qaeda gets its main power from - why their terrorism truly earns the word "acts." They are very theatrical, always - the simultaneous violence, the grandiose, symbolic gestures (the number 911, "United" and "American" flights, the World Trade as target etc). And then its aftermath.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.”
“Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mindâ€™s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed â€¦ Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.”
“Been brainwashed since age 2 I only had imaginary friends And still do And they hate you”
“Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.”
“Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.”

Source : "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.
“My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.”
“Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?”

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