"This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was."

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Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

W. G. Sebald

#Perspective Quotes #Survivor Quotes #Falsification Quotes

“If leading worship is just about bringing a group of people into a room so we can get goosebumps and sing songs together, there's not much value in that. But if leading worship is a means to an end, that we leave this place as a different kind of people, as part of a new humanity that God wants to create... then that matters.”
“How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes and the shape of your face the pattern on your palm and the moods that will shadow you through your life. How can you be alive when every choice you make breaks the world into a thousand filaments each careless step branching into long tributaries of alternate lives shuddering outward and outward like sheet lightning.”
“I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.”
“When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.”
“A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.”

Source : Song: The Monkey That Became President, Album: Storyteller Poet Philosopher
“Style? I have no style.”
“We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.”
“...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.”

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