"It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away."

-- John Wilkins

#Daughter Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Church Quotes

“I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.”

Source : "James Herbert on his daily routine, writing The Rats and how he hates violence". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 12, 2012.
“Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.”
“What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.”

Source : Nelson Goodman (1983). “Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”, p.31, Harvard University Press
“I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan
“The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.”

Source : Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.162, Yearling
“One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger's breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.”
“I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.”
“Theology is the logic of the Devil.”

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