"Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church."

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Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

John McGahern

#Gratitude Quotes #Church Quotes #Upbringing Quotes

“As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.”
“Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.”
“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”
“Before I speak, I have something important to say.”
“Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.”

Source : "The Ringworld Throne". Book by Larry Niven, 1996.
“The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this.”
“I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.”
“Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.”

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