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In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.
Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.
Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.
Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.
However you make your living is where your talent lies.
The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.
You are in the perfect position to get there from here.
An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.
Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.
God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.
The great doing of little things, makes the great life.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.
Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.
Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.
I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.
unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories
We are hungry for things that have touched human hands.
Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy
You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.
A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.
You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.
There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.
There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.
All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.
Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.