"Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces."

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William Gurnall

#Humility Quotes #Grace Quotes #Veils Quotes

“I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.”

Source : "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.
“I need to retire from retirement.”
“What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word.”

Source : Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster
“What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.”
“A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.”
“Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible.”
“My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.”

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