"[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern."

-- Janet Frame

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“Prayer flies where the eagle never flew.”

Source : Thomas Guthrie (1874). “The Gospel in Ezekiel: A Series of Discourses”, p.463
“This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.”
“Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.”
“The heart was a weak, changeable thing, bent on nothing but love, and there could be no more fatal mistake than to make it your master. Reason must be in charge. It comforted you for the heart's foolishness, it sang mocking songs about love, derided it as a whim of nature, transient as flowers. So why did she still keep following her heart?”
“When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?”
“Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"Craig Venter - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews - Richard Dawkins", www.youtube.com. June 30, 2009.
“If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?”

Source : "Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press". Book by Alexander Cockburn, p. 184, 1998.
“Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.”

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