Charles de Lint Quotes
What I’ve got to talk about, I don’t think a priest wants to hear. What does a priest know or care about secular concerns? All they want to talk about is God. All they want to hear is a tidy list of sins so that they can prescribe their penances and get on to the next customer.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.
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In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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I will not hear a word against him. I love my Bieber!
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When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
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The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.
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We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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One can easily realize God if one is free from guile. Spiritual instruction produces quick results in a guileless heart. Such a heart is like well cultivated land from which all the stones have been removed. No sooner is the seed sown than it germinates. The fruit also appears quickly.
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What I’ve got to talk about, I don’t think a priest wants to hear. What does a priest know or care about secular concerns? All they want to talk about is God. All they want to hear is a tidy list of sins so that they can prescribe their penances and get on to the next customer.
