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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West / Novelist
Happiness
Life
You Make Me Happy
Christian
Enjoy
Storm
Summer
Sunshine
Waiting
Whole
Never
You
Spend
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All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
Morris West / Novelist
Corruption
Institutions
Members
Vices
Prone
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Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
Morris West / Novelist
Drunk
Cage
Greeks
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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
Morris West / Novelist
Men
Truth
Divine
Function
Creature
Image
Noblest
Search
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There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.
Morris West / Novelist
Men
Light
Past
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I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
Morris West / Novelist
Me People Always
Interests
Principle
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
Morris West / Novelist
Art
Wisdom
Writing
Me People Always
Interests
Principle
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You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
Morris West / Novelist
Art
Wisdom
Causes
Despair
Perfection
Quarters
Proposed
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There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.
Morris West / Novelist
Clinging
Hands
Letting Go
Want
Let Go
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The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
Morris West / Novelist
Art
Learning Process
Long
Singers
Singing
Voice
Voices
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Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
Morris West / Novelist
Men
Nightmare
Pilgrimage
Spiritual
Walks
Wall
Cave
Creature
Experiences
Wonders
Traces
Worlds
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He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.
Morris West / Novelist
Men
Errors
Reform
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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
Morris West / Novelist
Nature
Failure
Human Nature
Kind
Witness
World
Follies
Guaranteed
Moment
None
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Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
Morris West / Novelist
Relationship
Accepting
All Things
Caught
Existence
Forever
God Relationship Your
Accept
Define
Explain
However
Presence
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You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
Morris West / Novelist
Caught
Nightmare
Pilgrimage
Spiritual
Walks
Creature
Experiences
Wonders
Traces
Worlds
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In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.
Morris West / Novelist
And Love
Book
Writing
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Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.
Morris West / Novelist
Buddhist
Continuity
Continuity Of Life
East
Impressed
Notion
Talking
Life Me Things
Turning
Greatly
Quite A Lot
Travelled
Wheel
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One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
Morris West / Novelist
Life
Wisdom
Conflict
Consequence
Cost
Doubt
Dying
Existence
Needs
Pain
Stubborn
Living
Accept
Condition
Apt
Total
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I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.
Morris West / Novelist
Nature
Bird
Thinking
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I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.
Morris West / Novelist
Cosmos
Creation
Huge
Lucky
Window
Ask
Myself
Been
Birds
Part
Here
Corner
Else
Everything Else
Finding
Look
Small
Put
Trees
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It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risks of living with both arms. One has to embrace life.
Morris West / Novelist
Cost
Pay The Price
Risk
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No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!
Morris West / Novelist
Running
Men
Sheep
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