#rites

I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race. ↗

— Heather Brewer

#journalism

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#because #cannot #i #i write #loves

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes

Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out the origins of everything to make sure they were started by God. ↗

— Eric Ludy

#leslie-ludy #when-god-writes-your-love-story #love

The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God. ↗

— Leslie Ludy

#leslie-ludy #when-god-writes-your-love-story #love

When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#death #funeral-rites #holden #hope

No person writes to win awards. ↗

— Mo Yan

#person #win #writes

Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#gods #humanism #humanity #hypocrisy #hypocrites

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#kings #priests #thieves #age