"I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it"

-- Taylor Caldwell

#Looks Quotes #Oblivion Quotes

“All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very poor. Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.”
“I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.”
“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press
“Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines (2012). “Bloodline: Five Stories”, p.95, Vintage
“If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.”
“If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.”
“You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.”
“The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.”

Source : Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.76, Univ of South Carolina Press

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