"In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England."

-- E. M. Forster

#Atheist Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Church Quotes

“You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.”

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“Every time I bought a Rock and Roll record, I bought a classical record at the same time. I like each as well as the other.”
“The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then wonâ€™t let me turn the traction control off!”

Source : "Top Gear: Series 5". TV Series, October 24, 2004.
“When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.”
“There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter; And if vanities don't hang in my mind, I shall rejoice at any time and place.”
“Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for your persecution, but on the society that has permitted this lawlessness.”
“Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,â€”but she always pays.”
“The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.”

Source : Sandra Cisneros (1991). “Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories”, Vintage

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