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“It is true the Shining Isle is smoke and ashes and that darkness is wide over the land. But your long memories have failed you. Of all creatures, you should know that the darkness is seldom complete, and even when it is, the pinprick of light is not long in coming -- and finer for the great shroud that surrounds it.”
― North! or Be Eaten
― North! or Be Eaten
“Anyone who can’t tell the difference between an ordinary Bernie Sanders supporter and a Stalinist revolutionary, or between Donald Trump’s average voter and a Nazi, is either willfully ignorant or needs to get out of the house more. Today, our public discourse is shockingly hyperbolic in ascribing historically murderous ideologies to the tens of millions of ordinary Americans with whom we strongly disagree. Just because you disagree with something doesn’t mean it’s hate speech or the person saying it is a deviant.”
― Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
― Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
“I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each other, and they don’t know each other because they don’t communicate with each other, and they don’t communicate with each other because they are separated from each other”
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“In religious circles the term spiritual tops the sacred ladder, but the word social slips to the bottom.”
― The Upside-Down Kingdom
― The Upside-Down Kingdom
“You know, Son, sometimes a fellow has to take a licking for doing the right thing. A licking only lasts a short while, even if it's a hard one, but failing to do the right thing will often make a mark on a man that will last forever.”
― Father and I Were Ranchers
― Father and I Were Ranchers
Great Novellas
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— last activity Jun 20, 2012 06:17AM
The novella is quickly becoming my favorite length for fiction. Longer than the short story, the novella allows the author to examine the plot and cha ...more
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