"I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard."

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Ben Marcus

#Grief Quotes #Bigs Quotes

“Some people get therapy, some people get to make movies.”
“Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as ***** economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets, and doesn't leave tips when dining out of town. Julie Nelson reminds us that most people aren't really like that. She helps point the way to a richer, more descriptive way of thinking about economic life.”
“There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.”

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“From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.”
“As President, I will institute a procedure in which all convicted criminals will have this brass ring will be surgically implanted into their foreheads-Americans have a right to know who they can trust. I don't care if you're 5, 6, or 7 years old, if you're a first-time offender, you're gonna go to Purgatory and it's not gonna be fun!”
“The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.”
“Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.”
“You can't predict how much time you will get to embrace your opportunity. You have to go after it with everything you have in you, sacrifice and believe.”

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