Russell Banks Quotes
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
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The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.
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It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
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Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
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If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
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She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.
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Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.
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At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.
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A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.
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I climbed a hill as light fell short, / And rooks came home in scramble sort, / And filled the trees and flapped and fought / And sang themselves to sleep.
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Who saves his country violates no law.
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Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
