Frederick Buechner Quotes
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I'm evangelical.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
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I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
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White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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The love in me salutes the love in you.
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It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
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The first fight I saw live, the fighter I was shadowing lost in front of a crowd of forty thousand people. The scale of that is staggering to me. Undergoing that overlap between something very personal and something very public strikes me as both admirable and also somewhat terrifying.
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I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful; they will save me lots of work
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It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
