"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"

-- Leonard Slatkin

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“They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies.”
“The world doesn't learn about God by watching Christian movies. The world learns about God by watching Christians.”
“Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive”

Source : Rudolfo A. Anaya (1972). “Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel”, Tqs Publications
“We live in a vastly complex society which has been able to provide us with a multitude of material things, and this is good, but people are beginning to suspect we have paid a high spiritual price for our plenty.”
“What any person in the world can learn,Â almostÂ all persons can learnÂ ifÂ provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.”
“All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do.”
“Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.”

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