He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and...
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G.k. Chesterton
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
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Joseph J. Ellis
A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.
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Robin Bertram
This is stupid."" Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness and the waste. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The pettiness, the...
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Joe Abercrombie
Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care ofyourself? You bet. But a person who’s willing to work and pay their own waycan at least take pride in that even if they can’t take pride in anything else.
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John Hawkins
More Quotes By J. D. Salinger
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
