52 ratings (4.52 avg)
31 reviews

Chris Mitchell

Add friend

http://anothergovernmentemployee.blogspot.com/

Chris’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (12)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (55)

did-not-finish‎ (0)

Stats | More…

“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
― George Santayana

217 likes

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: creative-process, escape, novels, reality, writing

627 likes

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”
― Mother Theresa of Calcutta

666 likes

“You're short on ears and long on mouth.”
― John Wayne

tags: listening

250 likes

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: bible, god, hatred, judgement, religion

3107 likes

More of Chris’s quotes…