"The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic."

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Source : Daniel Mendelsohn (2012). “Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture”, p.82, New York Review of Books

Daniel Mendelsohn

#Jesus Quotes #War Quotes #Three Quotes

“Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.”
“I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.”

Source : "There is life after Friends". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.
“There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.”
“Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.”
“Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.”
“Most of us spend years chasing things in this world that we think will make us feel loved. But everything this world has to offer is temporary. Everything. The kind of love our souls crave is lasting, eternal. And only God can fill up our hearts with that kind of love.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 14, 2016
“I think each of my books attempts to create its own voice so I'm not even sure I have a signature style, other than certain descriptive tendencies, an interest in the sound of language. Maybe an immersion in place.”
“Rehabilitation is such a tiny part of prison life, and I think that has to change. The funny thing is that there's even bi-partisan agreement that it has to change, but the question is how. I don't know how.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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