"Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home."

-- John Irving

#Christmas Quotes #Home Quotes #Loss Quotes

“We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.”
“Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.”
“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.”
“When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.”
“I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.”
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
“There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated. â€¦ To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.”
“Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.”

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