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#1

“It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: catholic, catholic-author, christian, feuds, forgive, forgive-and-forget, forgiveness, future-generation, future-generations, gadfly, god, ill-will, innocent, observations, punishment, revenge, sad-but-true, sin, sins-of-the-father, unforgiven, vengeance, wisdom

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#2

“It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be done about that now because the victims are dead and the survivors are innocent. These are good reasons for keeping our mouths shut about the past: but tell me, what are our reasons for silence about atrocities still to come?”
― Damon Knight, One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories

tags: atrocities, reparations, restitution, sins-of-the-father, survival, unfairness

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#3

“We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.”
― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros

tags: belief-systems, beliefs, fathers, fathers-and-daughters, fathers-and-sons, filial-love, parents, parents-and-children, sins-of-the-father, wisdom

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#4

“I can't live without the sun shining down on my face, and I can't dream without the stars kissing me goodnight.”
― S.L. Jennings, Taint

tags: ally, drake, justice-drake, love, love-quotes, s-l-jennings, taint

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#5

“I am here, I will always be here. Watching you, loving you.”
― Jayson Engay

tags: love-quotes, love-quotes-for-him

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#6

“It's so loud inside my head, with those words I want to say to you.”
― Jayson Engay

tags: love-quotes, love-quotes-for-him

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#7

“Every night, I laid awake with your memories flooding through my eyes with the hope to be with you when sleep arrived.”
― Anmol Rawat, A Little Chorus of Love

tags: love-hurts, love-quotes, painful-love, painful-memories

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#8

“The way to my heart shattered when you left me, but I was glad because your memories were invulnerable, locked inside my heart.”
― Anmol Rawat, A Little Chorus of Love

tags: love-hurts, love-quotes, romantic-quotes

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#9

“Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.”
― Lili St. Crow

tags: funny, funny-as-hell, funny-quotes, funny-stuff, humor, humor-work, humorous, humour, wisdom, writer, writers-block, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-philosophy

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#10

“Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.

Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that we have proof the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: da-vinci-code, dan-brown, god, religion

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#11

“When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.
The gray area between yes and no.
Silence.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: da-vinci-code, dan-brown, silence

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#12

“Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#13

“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: authors, on-writing, writers

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#14

“The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: chaos, gods, yin-and-yang

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#15

“At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon ― the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: irreligion, organized-religion

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#16

“Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican City with ones ass hanging out. Do I make myself clear?”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

tags: humor, robert-langdon, vatican-city

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#17

“Sophie, every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith—acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#18

“Originally,” Langdon said, “Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan’s veneration day of the sun.” He paused, grinning. “To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god’s weekly tribute—Sunday.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#19

“It seemed Eve’s bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#20

“The quest for the Holy Grail is the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene. A journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: inspirational

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#21

“Fache will do what no one else dares.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#22

“Transmogrification,” Langdon said. “The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos of Catholic saints. Pictograms of Isis nursing her miraculously conceived son Horus became the blueprint for our modern images of the Virgin Mary nursing Baby Jesus. And virtually all the elements of the Catholic ritual—the miter, the altar, the doxology, and communion, the act of “God-eating”—were taken directly from earlier pagan mystery religions.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#23

“Actually, Da Vinci was in tune with the balance between male and female. He believed that a human soul could not be enlightened unless it had both male and female elements.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#24

“Rémy, you realize your steak au poivre is the only reason you still work for me.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#25

“every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith—acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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#26

“Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

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#27

“She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them.”
― R.M. Drake

tags: fear, lion, wolves

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#28

“To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.”
― O. R. Melling

tags: instinct, self, strength, the-book-of-dreams, wild, wolves

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#29

“You weren't afraid of me when I was Wolf," he said. "Why are you afraid of Nathan?"
"He's got big feet!"
"What?"
An insulted-sounding arrroooo came from the other side of the door, a reminder that Wolves also had big ears.”
― Anne Bishop, Written in Red

tags: humor, insults, wolves

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#30

“Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.”
― Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

tags: the-company-of-wolves, wolf, wolves

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