"A book is never finished; it's abandoned."

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Source : "The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler". Book by H. Allen Smith, 1977.

Gene Fowler

#Book Quotes #Abandoned Quotes

“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”
“Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.”
“Mr. Harinton was real. There were adults in the world who would actually make sacrifices for others - not just for their own families but for anyone who needed help. Nicholas had always had the impression that families looked after one another, and he had come to understand that, on rare ocassions, children would do the same... But this was different. What Mr. Harinton was doing certainly helped Nicolas - but it also simply felt right to Nicholas. It made him want to be exactly like Mr. Harinton himself.”
“It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and I tore through a fairly wide range of Indian writers, some contemporary - like Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie - and others older, like R.K. Narayan. And I think what happened at that stage was that I was forced to take a position in my own writing style that was more fixed, as opposed to reading a book at a time and defining myself in opposition to or in awe of it.”
“The answers to the world's perplexities are, in fact, found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ . . . The more we can bring others to see the gospel in action, the more they will be willing to at least tolerate us, then to encourage us, and eventually to cooperate with us.”
“Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend were all living in different worlds because were on different continents.”
“What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?”

Source : Antony Flew, John Shosky (1998). “Philosophical Essays”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield
“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to oneâ€™s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”

Source : Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press

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