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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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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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Personal Development
"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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Personal Development
"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
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Personal Development
"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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Personal Development
"The will of God is good, acceptable and perfect."
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Personal Development
"Your will to success supersedes all other wills."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"You can tell a lot about a person's priorities in life by reading their will."
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Personal Development
"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."
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"If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
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"Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car."
Life
"Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith."
Religion
"Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them."
Art
"She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything."
Education
"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
"I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened."
Life
"Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin."
Humility
"He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.''What you got on it?' the girl said.'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.''Haw, haw,' the girl said politely."
Relationship
"When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty."
Faith
"Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing."
Life
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