#highlight

he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century—naturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social satire—which would eventually topple the genteel tradition of the nineteenth century. In a peculiar way, Parrington seemed to think, Kansas was one of the birthplaces of literary modernism. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#nature

By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which differs significantly in one or more respects as to belief or practice from those religious groups which are regarded as the normative expressions of religion in our total culture. ↗

— Walter Martin

#religion

Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole. ↗

— Tina Fey

#crazy

Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#failure

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. ↗

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#observation

They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take. ↗

— Blaize Clement

#mystery

Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#irony

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. ↗

— Anne Rice

#loneliness

literary comfort-food down ↗

— Stephen King

#food

There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person. ↗

— R.A. Torrey

#holy-spirit