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“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting,” I said, “but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where’s evil? It’s that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It’s that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive. “It’s that part of an imbecile,” I said, “that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“Take away religion, take away philosophy, take away the higher aims of art, and you deprive ordinary people of the ways in which they can represent their apartness. Human nature, once something to live up to, becomes something to live down to instead. Biological reductionism nurtures this ‘living down’, which is why people so readily fall for it. It makes cynicism respectable and degeneracy chic. It abolishes our kind, and with it our kindness.”
― Face of God: The Gifford Lectures
― Face of God: The Gifford Lectures
“Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.”
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“Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
“Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.”
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
― How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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