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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if read more
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.
To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one read more
To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, read more
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.
Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that read more
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when read more
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
