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— Donald E. Westlake

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More quotes by Donald E. Westlake

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

Don't Ask (1993)

Eyes wide and blank as the buttons on a first Communion coat.

Ask the Parrot (2006)

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

The Hunter (1962)

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

Two Much (1975)

Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering.

Blogcritics interview (2007)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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