"It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didnâ€™t stop and cluck over damage done unless you made it worth their while. Indeed, maybe it was time to rethink this whole salvation business. Or maybe I was less desperate, less teetering on the edge than I cared to admit. Now, that was a refreshing possibility."

-- Daphne Merkin

#People Quotes #Might Quotes #Pay Quotes

“What is photojournalism? Occasionally, a very unique photo, in which form is precise and rich enough and content has enough resonance, is sufficient in itself. But that's rarely the case. The elements of a subject that speak to us are often scattered and can't be captured in one photo; we don't have the right to force them together, and to stage them would be cheating...which brings us to the need for photojournalism.”
“He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or cicadas. Something was out there. An intruder of which the ordinary forest creatures clearly did not approve. He took a deep breath and held it again, straining to hear the slightest movement in the woods. This time he detected the rustle of brush, a snapping twig, the soft crunch of dry leaves-and the unnervingly peculiar, heavy, ragged breathing of something big.”
“The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.”
“Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.”

Source : Morton Irving Seiden (1968). “The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder”
“Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.”
“A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.”
“You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.”
“Very little happens in my books.”

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