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Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.


Jean Hanff Korelitz

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A.D. POSEY Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be ...
ABU BAKR Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative vitality of nature but a su...
WILL DURANT There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
RAJNEESH You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal…Following the crowd is not a winning ...
TIM TEBOW My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an e...
LINCOLN CHILD And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.
BIBLE By night an atheist half believes in a God
EDWARD YOUNG By night an atheist half believes in a God.
EDWARD YOUNG And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, Th...
JOHN MILTON God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, ...
JOHN PIPER Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that...
KURT VONNEGUT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD So every day
I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth
of the ideas of God,
one...
MARY OLIVER I was brought up in the north of Scotland, and where I lived was so lowly populated, it was used as ...
DAVID MACKAY A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]....
THOMAS MERTON Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, ...
JONATHAN BARNES I was asked by a concerned church-goer: "Is your relationship with God okay?" and I answered "My rel...
C. JOYBELL C. When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I'd get back to the ...
JERRY SEINFELD I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. ...
ALICE WALKER The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak.
INDONESIA123 If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while livi...
THOMAS VERNOR SMITH Who is the first farmer? The good book says: God planted a garden. So God is the first, then Adam, a...
SOTONYE ANGA Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, bu...
CHARLES BRADLAUGH First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publis...
ANNA CHLUMSKY Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there i...
JERRY BRIDGES Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the land of Bad Ass, Acheron reigned supreme.
SHERRILYN KENYON But in Genesis we see God as a gardener, and in the New Testament we see him as a carpenter. No task...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn't complain. It w...
BERNHARD LANGER This God of Abraham has a good job, a very good job indeed, he’s credited by his followers for hon...
BOBBY W. MILLER Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of ...
ELIZABETH GOUDGE When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted ...
RICK PERLSTEIN To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power,...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatev...
C. JOYBELL C. Such was his destiny written by a fate, that his very survival depended on surrendering his all his ...
DR HITESH C SHETH You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES By night an atheist half believes in God.
EDWARD YOUNG He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God per...
ISAAC NEWTON if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are...
TED RALL A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of...
FLOYD SKLOOT For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been institut...
MARTIN LUTHER To me, to whom God hath revealed his Son, in a Gospel, by a Church, there can be no way of salvation...
JOHN DONNE 34. Sexual contact between a boy and a girl is a progressive thing. In other words, the amount of to...
JAMES C. DOBSON To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'litera...
HOWARD JACOBSON You may have a body free of disease and deformity, and have no worries or grief at all; you may be u...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did no...
BIBLE We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck.
PARUL WADHWA We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we...
MISHI MCCOY Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Obviously, that a patient was raped by a nursing assistant is awful and everything we are trying to ...
LAURIE JINKINS You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS How do you know about the world is real?...
How?...
How you don't think that you are locke...
DEYTH BANGER I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible...
BERTRAND RUSSELL God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about hi...
JOHN PIPER No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by. [No sooner is a Temp...
GEORGE HERBERT Their more lowly paths have been allotted to them by the hand of God . . . it is their part faithful...
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE I am sensitive soul; I feel with the moon,
I use to be judged for my indifference, now I see t...
NIKKI ROWE God help me. I'm so tired. I need my sleep. I make no bones about it. I need eight hours a day, and ...
BILL HICKS The best prayer one can make to the God is by promising that he will try to become a better human be...
J C GUPTA When I first cut my hair short, I was trying for a mix of Mia Farrow and Jean Seberg. The photo I to...
MORENA BACCARIN Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.
AMIT RAY Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all lo...
J.C. RYLE When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used t...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD When you are down to nothing, God and the universe are always up to something!!! Be strong in your f...
ANGIE KARAN And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're ...
HIRO FUJIWARA Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ...
ERIN O'RIORDAN When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a youn...
MAYA ANGELOU [He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...
BROTHER LAWRENCE CHRISTMAS DAY GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN Lo, God, our God has come! To us a Child is born, To us a S...
HORATIUS BONAR As truly as God by His power once
created, so truly by that same power must God every moment ma...
ANDREW MURRAY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the com...
NANCY KRESS God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a ...
JOHN HAGGAI God hides the fires of hell within paradise.
PAULO COELHO I'm a wanderess
I'm a one night stand
Don't belong to no city
Don't belong to no man<...
HALSEY There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He cas...
CHARLES SPURGEON Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Ch...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
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, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into th...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems ...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably j...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the door...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're cau...
JEAN ANOUILH Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the o...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by p...
JEAN ANOUILH Tact is knowing how far to go too far.
JEAN COCTEAU Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
JEAN COCTEAU One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
JEAN ANOUILH If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characteriz...
JEAN PIAGET The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
JEAN COCTEAU Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just para...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
JEAN ROSTAND Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth an...
JEAN COCTEAU The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
JEAN ANOUILH A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit th...
JEAN LUSH I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one stri...
JEAN RHYS