"It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings"

-- Isak Dinesen

#Lying Quotes #Sake Quotes #Christ Quotes

“Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.”
“The spacious firmament on high, And all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.”
“But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable.”

Source : Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Amy & Isabelle”, p.260, Simon and Schuster
“Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.”
“Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.”
“In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night draw on, the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hilltops, the seep serene of the asters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown across them, till they nearly touched the hithermost shore. At distance hear the murmur of many waterfalls not audible in the day-time. Wished for the moon, but she was dark to me and silent, hid in her vacant interlunar cave.”
“It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.”
“I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.”

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