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"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."
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"The stars will live for me, if not anything else."
"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."
"Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end."
"Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up."
"Life hands us storms so we can paint rainbows."
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"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."
"Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you."
"Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look."
"My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be."
"And if the student finds that this is not to his taste well that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted it is being formed."
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