It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.
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Katherine Dunn,
Geek Love
The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on only henceforth in my absence. It’s the second of those thoughts: the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing. Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall.
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Christopher Hitchens,
Hitch-22: A Memoir
Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
maybe it’s not about having a plan, or even a plan B. Maybe it’s about seeing where life takes you and learning to enjoy the ride.
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Jenny O’Connell
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
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Voltaire
Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!
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J.K. Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Dallas Willard,
The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
Love means never having to be apart
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James Patterson,
Sundays at Tiffany’s
The body of the Word, then, being a real human body, in spite of its having been uniquely formed from a virgin, was of itself mortal and, like other bodies, liable to death. But the indwelling of the Word loosed it from this natural liability, so that corruption could not touch it. Thus is happened that two opposite marvels took place at once: the death of all was consummated in the Lord’s body; yet, because the Word was in it, death and corruption were in the same act utterly abolished.
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Athanasius of Alexandria,
On the Incarnation
Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I’m just some idiot actor having a bhaenchud nightmare, what the fuck do I know, yaar, what to tell you, help. Help.
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Salman Rushdie,
The Satanic Verses
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