"It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially."

-- Donna Tartt

#Book Quotes #Hundred Quotes

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
“Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.”
“The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.”
“The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?”
“In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If I can be Coyote and practice my sneak-up, I can engage the viewers from a distance with one image and lure them in for exposure to another layer, which changes the initial view into quite a different reality. After all, that is what ethnic culture is all about - or even an ongoing relationship. What you see on the surface is never the same again one you begin to plumb the depths.”
“The true way for a Christian to live is to live entirely upon Christ... Christians have experiences and they have feelings, but, if they are wise, they never feed upon these things, but upon Christ, Himself.”
“We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.”
“My inspiration comes from that and so I wrote â€˜Killing Jesus,â€™ because I think I was directed to write that.”

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