We love our pastor. The Bible tells us that reconciliation is the word of God. That's all it is. So for them [the parishioners] to be upset about their pastor, I'm sure that anybody can understand that.


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An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only ...
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That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way ...
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It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a ...
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Suppose I were to give you a key ring [...] with a hundred keys, and I were to tell you that one of ...
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Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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Nel momento in cui riconosceva quello che c'era su una cartuccia provava la sensazione carica d'ansi...
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Someone who had authority, or should have had authority and did not exercise authority. I do not kno...
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Because we’ve been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It’s ultimately just about t...
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Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.
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Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed libra...
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One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion...
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Every love story is a ghost story.
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Ortho Stice played with a kind of rigid, liquid grace, like a panther in a back-brace.
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He said he didn’t think Lenore should go to the G.O.D.
"Nobody ever finds anybody in a place ...
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Every two or three generations the world gets vastly different, and the context in which you have to...
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It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological eras...
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Trite though it (used to) sound, real sexuality is about our struggles to connect with one another, ...
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This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, ...
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I am about art here, not simple reproduction.
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TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing,...
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And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you...
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Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men’s tour on television has, over the last few yea...
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Life is like tennis. Those who serve best usually win.
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The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he s...
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LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the...
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Nel tennis il vero avversario, la frontiera che include, è il giocatore stesso. C'è sempre e solo ...
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Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict ...
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My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
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This wise old whiskery fish swims up to three young fish and goes, 'Morning, boys, how's the water?'...
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You want to know the story? I'd be happy to tell you. I think I have just enough caloric energy stor...
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Huh. Well you and I just disagree. Maybe the world just feels differently to us. This is all going b...
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Trying to be anti-cool is just one exponent off trying to be cool -- it's the same beast.
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Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a h...
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...you are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, ...
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The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picay...
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Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because it
implicitly congratulates both it...
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This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your peopl...
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Lenore, it's simply that I love you. You know that. Every fiber of your being is loved by every fibe...
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Supongo que ser tímido significa básicamente estar absorbido por uno mismo hasta el punto de que s...
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If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and lov...
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Eyes the broad-shouldered faceless character that symbolizes Men’s Room, does Sternberg, and strug...
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When something large and oncoming passed, the windshield's big rectangle was for a moment incandesce...
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I am fortunately an entirely handsome devil and appear even younger than twenty-nine. I look like a ...
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But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any real satisfact...
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Sometimes, when I don't think about it, I think I have just totally escaped the Bad Thing, and that ...
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If I’m hanging out with you, I can’t even tell whether I like you or not because I’m too worri...
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I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vu...
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JAY: No really. Be secure. Pretend I'm a sperm cell. Here. I take the string out of the... hood of m...
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The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.
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It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
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Te occidere possunt sed te edere possunt nefas est.
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Il suicidio è così contrario a tanti nostri istinti e impulsi programmati che nessuno sano di ment...
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Blue Springs Memorial Hospital Palliative Care Unit, Independence, Mo.
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The truth is you've already heard this. That this is what it's like. That it's what makes room for t...
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It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others’ self esteem simply as a function...
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She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.
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It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way...
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...this was depressing, much the way discovering that somebody is easy to manipulate is always a lit...
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The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece...
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