"When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you."

-- Charles Stanley

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“Coming into World War II, we were seen as a conquering hero for beleaguered people, we are now seen as invader, an occupier. And what that is saying is we have more might than right, so we kind of have a kind of moral deficit disorder. And that's why a leader must lift us back to the higher ground, because at the end of the day what makes you strong is that you are believable, that as significant as might is, ultimately right is even stronger than might.”
“I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.”
“The dumbest women I hooked up with were in Florida. I lived in Florida for a year, and it was just shocking. I literally felt like after living there for a couple months that I had become stupider. It was unbelievable. If you read my stories based around crazy women, about 75 percent of those women were in Florida Â…and I only lived there for a year.”
“Anger makes people stupid.”

Source : William Kennedy (2011). “Very Old Bones”, p.159, Simon and Schuster
“Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.”
“And this is what you get for laughing at me." He pulled her up a few inches until his lips touched hers.”
“Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.”

Source : Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”
“There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.”

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