"All we have is the story we tell."

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Jess Walter

#Stories Quotes

“I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.”
“The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.”
“For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.”
“Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to eternal life. They have understood that they could not cleave to Jesus Christ as the Head of the Church if they did not belong to the Body of Jesus Christ which is the Church. Nor could they ever hope to possess in all its purity the faith of Jesus Christ if they were to reject its legitimate teaching authority entrusted to Peter and his successors.”
“All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.”
“I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.”

Source : Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.
“It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of mathematics can lead to conclusions which are diametrically opposite to one another.”
“There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.”

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