"Because I donâ€™t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now Iâ€™m on this rock, now Iâ€™m on this rock, now Iâ€™m on this rock."

-- Ann Beattie

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“The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin”
“The most dangerous place is in your safety zone.”
“What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.”
“Good is not enough. You've got to be great.”
“You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is going to do it, it is not you who is going to do it, but God. 'The peace of God that passeth all understanding'-He, through it all, 'will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus'.”
“Life has a strange way of working itself out”
“When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.”
“I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.”

Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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