"We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one."

-- John Updike

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“In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existence that lies mysteriously and invisibly beneath its surface, I feel I have succeeded. At their best, photographs as symbols not only serve to help illuminate some of the darkness of the unknown, they also serve to lessen the fears that too often accompany the journeys from the known to the unknown.”
“Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.”

Source : "Christian Worldview". Interview with Julia Duin, www.washingtontimes.com. July 03, 2003.
“Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route.”
“I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.”
“But if it comes down to next year, I'll be picketing outside of Halas Hall for a new deal, a new contract, because I'm not going anyplace.”
“I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?”
“Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.”

Source : Hilary Thayer Hamann (2010). “Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau
“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”

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