"Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped."

-- John Armstrong

#Ideas Quotes #Desire Quotes #Use Quotes

“One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.”
“She suspects her husband, Jake, might be gay." "Did you suggest she ask him?" Mom laughed. "Of course not. Business is slow.”

Source : Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.94, Simon and Schuster
“My attempts at a lawn. Twice have we had the ground carefully dug up, and prepared; twice it has been sown with the best English seed... at considerable expense; ...and the end of all the trouble has been that a strong nor'wester has blown away both seed and soil, leaving only the hard, un-dug ground. ...there are the croquet things, lying idle in the verandah... they are likely to remain unused for ever.”
“It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?”

Source : V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Living Novel”, p.87, A&C Black
“Play in curiosity is where everything happens.”
“Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.”
“In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.”
“You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.41, Grove Press

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