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"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
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"Max Lucado says that 'A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.' That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!"

"Satan is the sower of compromise-leaving a bit of God's truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is the commander in deceit, Satan is the ringleader in rebellion against the faithful.Satan is the sly serpent of temptation.Satan is the false hope of security.Satan is the great pretender.Satan is the great spoiler of everything good.And Satan wants to destroy you."

"You must let other people to challenge your truths; you must let them to question your faith and the reason for this is very simple: Your truths might be very wrong; your faith might be very mistaken. Don't be a castle; you need bridges surrounding you, not walls! And remember that walls belong only to cowards!"

"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"Stick to the honesty and never leave it!"
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"Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values."

"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."

"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."

"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."

"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."
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