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He kneels and prays to heaven but nothing happens.

— Jeffrey Ford The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (2002)

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Nothing is more comforting to people than to have their certainties trumpeted back to them in bold, clear typeface.

The Empire of Ice Cream (2006)

You are no more nor less than any man—a hungry heart and a wavering will.

Crackpot Palace (2012)

They’ve told so many lies in their lives that they’ve run out and can now tell only the truth.

Crackpot Palace (2012)

What good is the illusion of fiction if it cannot show us a way to become the people we need to be?

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (2002)

The lion is fur, muscle, tendon, claw, and speed, five important ingredients of the unfathomable.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

Plato

To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

Claude Debussy Claude Debussy: His Life and Works (1933)

"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

John F. Kennedy

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