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"This going to be a slow read because I’m stopping every other page to say “go off Leah” and send quotations to friends" Dec 25, 2025 05:07AM

 
Book cover for One Beautiful Dream: The Rollicking Tale of Family Chaos, Personal Passions, and Saying Yes to Them Both
This was a struggle I’d had since the moment I came to faith: the temptation to act like I was still an atheist, even though, intellectually, I was a believer. Moving my faith down from my head to my heart, and into my moment-to-moment ...more
Mai
Tbh this applies to cradle Catholics as much as converts. I call myself a Catholic and yet, I quite often behave as though I didn't believe in God at all. It's the moment-to-moment living of the presence of God that counts.
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Groucho Marx
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

Mark Twain
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Mark Twain

G.K. Chesterton
“Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?”
G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

Bertrand Russell
“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
Bertrand Russell

J.R.R. Tolkien
“Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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