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Lennie
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“Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol.
Her response was, “If it’s only a symbol, to hell with it.”
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Her response was, “If it’s only a symbol, to hell with it.”
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“Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.”
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
“You’re flawed, and the world you see corresponds to these flaws. Weaknesses define you, drive new and original strategies to cover them, and they make you who you are. You don’t exist without them.”
― In Ascension
― In Ascension
“I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or destroyed there. It still doesn't really explain anything though - we can't see anyone because it's impossible to see anyone. It's circular. It doesn't say why becoming space proficient dooms us.”
― In Ascension
― In Ascension
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