Bel Kaufman Quotes
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
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God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.
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My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.
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Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.
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Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
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For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.
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Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
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If we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then we shouldn't be recognizing it only as a book of historical and economic significance.
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I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.
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I don't have the wherewithal to judge God's will. I don't have the wherewithal to determine whether your viewpoints are right or wrong.
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You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.
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Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
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Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!
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Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!
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The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.
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Science, ever since the time of the Arabs, has had two functions: (1) to enable us to know things, and (2) to enable us to do things.
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Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
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Critical power...tends to make an intellectual situation of which the creative power can profitably avail itself. It tends to establish an order of ideas, if not absolutely true, yet true by comparison with that which it displaces; to make the best ideas prevail.
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I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
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The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.
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You’re not God. Nothing is your fault, except, perhaps, poor teaching.
