"The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair."

-- Mary Heaton Vorse

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“Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.”
“We don't smoke ***** in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.”
“That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.”
“When the women start to push 40, they're not single, fun girls around town any more.”
“Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.”
“One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.”
“Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.”

Source : John Hart (2010). “The King of Lies”, p.72, Macmillan
“The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.”

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