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"The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?"
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"Imperfection contains more information than perfection."
"I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty."
"Monk... not monk but Andrian Monk makes mistakes if he makes then and we can."
"There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness."
"Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections."
"If someone finds a flaw [shortcoming] in us, know that there is imperfection [defect] in us. However, it is a different matter if that person has a habit of talking negatively, but generally that is not the case."
"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
"Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere."
"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."
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"Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else."
"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."
"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."
"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
"In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground."
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