Francis Asbury Quotes
Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.
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Awkwardness gives me great comfort.
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The world's become a little too mean.
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Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.
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'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'
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I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.
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Despair and die. The ghosts
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Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.
