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"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."
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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
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"I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have."
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"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."
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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."
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"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
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"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
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"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."
Language
"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."
Cities
"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
Biography
"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."
Love
"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."
Past
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."
History
"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."
God
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."
History
"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."
Writing
"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."
Heaven
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