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“Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.”
― A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
― A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
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“When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
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Joel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
598 books
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111 friends
448 books
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111 friends
1,985 books
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252 friends
1,487 books
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121 friends
1,474 books
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289 friends
720 books
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173 friends
362 books
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76 friends
3,216 books
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105 friends
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