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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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“family is a group of strangers with a destructive desire for common nostalgia.”
― In Ascension
― In Ascension
“Everyone should be acknowledged. Everyone should be missed when they are not right there with you because of what they carry, this very distinct way they have of bearing themselves that is like no one else and that is built by everything they have done and everything they have seen.”
― In Ascension
― In Ascension
“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
“In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
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