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"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."
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"Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not."
Faith
"I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction."
Learning
"If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival."
Routine
"When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist."
Creativity
"When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle."
Philosophy
"When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures."
Communication
"I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened."
Life
"Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited."
Ethics
"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."
Opinion
"If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
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"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."
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"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
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"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."
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"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
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"Your will to success supersedes all other wills."
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"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
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