Her mind moved around and around the subject, moving with a kind of fuzzy firmness. With no coherent thought process, she arrived at a conviction - a habit with the basically insecure; an insecurity whose seeds are invariably planted earlier, in under or over-protectiveness, in a distrust in parental authority which becomes all authority. It can later, with maturity - a flexible concept - be laughed away, dispelled by determined clear thinking. Or it can be encouraged by self-abusive resentment and brooding self-pity. It can grow ever greater until the original authority becomes intolerable, and a change becomes imperative. Not to a radical one in thinking; that would be too troublesome, too painful. The change is simply to authority in another guise which, in time, and under any great stress, must be distrusted and resented even more than the first. . Jim Thompson
Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Henry David Thoreau
To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.
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Criss Jami
There is more for us to gain through love than hate.
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Suzy Kassem
I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.
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A.W. Tozer
The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.
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Bill Gaede
More Quotes By Jim Thompson
If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow.
The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.
Did you ever think much about jobs? I mean, some of the jobs people land in? You see a guy giving haircuts to dogs, or maybe going along the curb with a shovel, scooping up horse manure. And you think, now why is the silly...
I sat down in a booth, and the waitress shoved a menu in front of me. There wasn’t anything on it that sounded good, and anyway, one look at her and my stomach turned flipflops… Every goddamned restaurant I go to, it’s always the same...
I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
