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"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."

"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."

"Uh...are we going to talk about what just happened?" Victoria asked as Drake stepped over to Finn's desk to look at the map layout of the cemetery, seemingly calm about the fact that Bo and Nyx had just disappeared into thin air."

"If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore."

"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."

"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."
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"In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation."

"Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing."

"Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign."

"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."

"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."

"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."

"In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention."

"The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny."

"To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations."
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