"Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can."

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Source : "This Week in Fiction: Colm Tóibín" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2013.

Colm Toibin

#Ordinary Quotes #Way Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.”
“It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.”
“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”
“Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words....”
“I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down.”

Source : Source: www.bookbrowse.com
“When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.”

Source : "Bihārul Anwār" by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, vol.78, p. 128,
“That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?”
“Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.”

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