Jasper Fforde Quotes
Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
Jasper Fforde
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
Origen
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
Manolo Blahnik
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
Quentin Crisp
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
Jack Wagner
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
Adam Hamilton
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Most of the things I write, I write on spec. And because I write them on spec, there's less interference. Because there's less interference, they tend to be better.
Peter Morgan
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When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.
A. H. Almaas
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If you try to imagine, as nearly as you can, what an amount of misery, pain and suffering of every kind the sun shines upon in its course, you will admit that it would be much better if, on the earth as little as on the moon, the sun were able to call forth the phenomena of life; and if, here as there, the surface were still in a crystalline state.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.
Chogyam Trungpa
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No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
Anton Walbrook
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Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
Jasper Fforde
