"In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut."

-- Bryan Batt

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“We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature, adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deceit from truth.”
“Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.”
“Get Up is basically the book I wanted to have my first year of sobriety. I wish someone had given me this book a year before I even went to a meeting because I was already miserable. I didn't enjoy drinking anymore, I just couldn't stand the idea of not doing it. I was afraid if I got sober I wouldn't be able to write anymore. That was a really big fear of mine, which turned out not to be true.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.”
“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”

Source : Gerda Lerner (1998). “Why History Matters: Life and Thought”, p.205, Oxford University Press on Demand
“The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.”
“My head is pounding. Like the worst hangover ever.”
“What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someoneâ€™s library is like peeking into their DNA.”

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