"Michael Winterâ€™s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his lifeâ€¦ harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldnâ€™t miss for the world."

-- Michael Crummey

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“Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.”
“I apologize to everyone who was offended by my insensitive tweet about the situation in Egypt. I've dedicated my life to raising awareness about serious social issues, and in hindsight my attempt at humor regarding a nation liberating themselves against oppression was poorly timed and absolutely inappropriate.”

Source : "Egypt protests". www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2011.
“Our family may seem extraordinary in some magazines or something, but at home it's not. We're really just a very loving family. We're very close, and we don't read magazines. We just kind of go to work and come home. We try to keep a sense of reality into their lives. What's truly real, not Hollywood real.”
“Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.”
“The Resurrection was the greatest â€˜eucatastropheâ€™ possible in the greatest Fairy Story â€” and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.”
“If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.”
“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”

Source : Victor Hugo (1883). “Oration on Voltaire”
“The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.”

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