Michel Faber Quotes
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
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The reason for the lights is simple. Wellesley has very limited open space, and our playing field space is extremely tight. Having the ability to put lights at Reidy would allow us to, really, double the utilization of our primary field.
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The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.
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What do you think? Does this face make me look fat?
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Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.
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He had to do certain things just to get out of the state, but I really admire his strength through this whole thing.
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The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.
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The opposite of slut is someone who has not been labeled a slut, someone who has never been charged with violating doxa.
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
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The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
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It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow.
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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.
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Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live.
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I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.
