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Anna Kendrick
“I thrive in structure. I drown in chaos.”
Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody

Thomas Aquinas
“To love is to will the good of the other.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Flannery O'Connor
“I am often told that the model of balance for the novelist should be Dante, who divided his territory up pretty evenly between hell, purgatory, and paradise. There can be no objection to this, but also there can be no reason to assume that the result of doing it in these times will give us the balanced picture it gave in Dante's. Dante lived in the thirteenth century, when that balance was achieved by the faith of his age. We live now in an age which doubts both fact and value, which is swept this way and that by momentary convictions. Instead of reflecting a balance from the world around him, the novelist now has to achieve one from a felt balance inside himself.”
Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Mace Brown calmly walked over, put his arm on Carlton's shoulder, and looked into his filthy, sweat-streaked face. 'Son, I want to tell you something my daddy told me a long time ago,' he drawled. 'If you hadn't wanted to work, you oughtn't have hired out.' The words struck Carlton like a foul tip off the face mask. It sounded like one of the most profound statements of truth and essence he had ever heard.”
Doug Wilson

Jim Gaffigan
“I used to have a lot of faith in humanity before the advent of the website "comment" section.”
Jim Gaffigan, Dad Is Fat

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