Carmen Boullosa Quotes
In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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Sin is cosmic treason
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Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
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Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.
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We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.
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Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.
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An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
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Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.
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And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?
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All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
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The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.
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What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?
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I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
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A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
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My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.
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I think that if you're passionate about something and you're driven and you're focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life.
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His hunger for knowledge gave him no rest, it was both his bane and his joy.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.
