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In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

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New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

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The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#chained #christ #destroyed #down #earth

The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

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The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. ↗

— Terry Southern

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I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal. ↗

— Terry Southern

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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#air #breathing #bright #effort #fresh

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector. ↗

— Terry Southern

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I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers. ↗

— Terry Southern

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