"I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive."

-- Alan Hollinghurst

“People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.”
“The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.”
“The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck. The present time together with the past will be judged by the great Joker: the world too late will be tired of him, and through the clergy oath-taker disloyal. The year of the great seventh number accomplished, it will appear at the time of the games of slaughter: not far from the great millenial age, when the buried will go out from their tombs.”
“It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.”
“All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.”
“Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.”
“Most of the time, it's not until we embrace our limitations that God can start to use us beyond our limitations.”
“It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.”

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