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"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."

"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."

"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."

"The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show."

"In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions."

"We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David."
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"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."

"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."

"No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant."

"People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy."

"That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do."

"She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"

"My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of."

"My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have."
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