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“If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.”

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David Mitchell

David Mitchell is a British novelist known for his unique narrative techniques and profound humanistic concerns. His works often blend humor, satire, and philosophical thinking, winning him a wide audience. more

“But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).”

Found Term Shapes Including Painful Deeper Stranger Surface Invisible Imaginary Venture Affliction Polish Grind Exotic Corridors

Author:Thomas Pynchon

“Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery”

Inspirational Courage Misery Have Courage

Author:Anne Frank

“Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?”

World Government Chance Willing Findings Salvation Seeking Expected Narrative Code Settling Payoff

Author:Thomas Pynchon

“It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.”

Jesus Easy Wonder Expectations Assumption Engagement Resurrection Being There Sense Of Wonder

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.”

Knows Doe Action Sin Effort Attitude Grace Earning Forgiveness Of Sins

Author:Dallas Willard

“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.”

Earth Air Horse Musical Soar Horns Pipe Hawks Hermes Horse Racing Equestrian Race Horses

Book:Henry V

Source: Henry V

“He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.”

May Earth Water Fire Air Pure Elements Horse Patient Heat Beast Colour Dull Stillness Riders Ginger Jade

Book:Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

“Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.”

Grows Old Fashioned Modernity

Book:High spirits

Source: High spirits

“But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.”

Ifs Two Moments Eye Devil Advantage Mercy Miracle Asking Agree Divorce Grants Leap Uneasy Breach True Faith Inattention

Author:Michel Faber

“The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.”

Men World Trying Common Hero Fit Genuine Wander Generosity Impulse Characteristics Heroic Heroism Reconcile Great Perseverance Being A Hero Great Hero

Book:Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)

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