"I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane."

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Tana French

#Caught Quotes #Mundane Quotes

“It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.”
“If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things.”
“When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a work of Christian art. But to look at a work of art and then to make a judgment as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. It is something we cannot know in any conclusive way. We can know only if it speaks within our own hearts, and leads us to living more deeply with Christ in God.”
“Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.”
“A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.”
“Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.”
“Baseball is the life.”
“Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.”

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