"Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game."

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Philip Roth

#Fun Quotes #Games Quotes #Faces Quotes

“The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.”
“The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that tends toward obsession and brooding, that works against fatality like fingers at a knot. The firm, attentive mind on display and the lucid unfolding of the poems are the life instinct seeking and finding its way through again and again. Love and beauty are the argument, but they don't win easily. Bloom in Reverse works through elegy toward survival with moving persistence, both driven and compelling.”
“It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence”
“It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.”
“Your eye level is your reference point for drawing the perspective lines. All lines above your eye level will go down to the horizon vanishing point and all lines below your eye level will go up to the horizon vanishing point.”
“I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.”
“I've heard that we come on the earth in pairs, get separated only to meet once again through marriage. So whoever is there on this earth for me, will eventually get paired with me. Till then, I'll enjoy my singlehood.”
“The truth is you always grow to love the people you pray for.Â Thatâ€™s because you develop Godâ€™s heart of love for them.”

Source : Stormie Omartian, Jack Hayford (2009). “The Power of a Praying® Church: Experiencing God Move as We Pray Together”, p.115, Harvest House Publishers

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