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As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours Picture Quote #1

I grew up in the 1930's Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow Picture Quote #1

Writers take words seriously - perhaps the last professional class that does - and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader Picture Quote #1

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents Picture Quote #1

I like the race, rather than the winning. Do you really? Yes, I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better Picture Quote #1

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead? Picture Quote #1

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In the same way that certain sections of the city were mortal battlegrounds, some parts of the calendar were always more warlike than others, and during the days between Christmas and the new year all elements seemed to conspire to subdue the soul. Fire, rain, sickness, cold, and death were everywhere spread through the dark as in a painting of hell. People struggled until exhaustion, giving everything they had, and the days were packed with trials and mysteries Picture Quote #1

Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both Picture Quote #1

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience Picture Quote #1

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified Picture Quote #1

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen Picture Quote #1

To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too Picture Quote #1

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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation Picture Quote #1

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find Picture Quote #1

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography Picture Quote #1

Education... beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor Picture Quote #1

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better Picture Quote #1

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money Picture Quote #1

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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all Picture Quote #1

Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit Picture Quote #1

Their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals Picture Quote #1

But the long tunnels of art through which I walked in Rome that day had no ragged edges, cowardly colors, or shades of pastel that didn't know what to do with themselves. The wisdom, perfection, and beauty of the colors and forms I passed were more than enough, in their collectivity, to hint at the principles which govern the hereafter, whatever that may be. Indeed, even a detail of one painting can offer solid direction in this regard if one knows how to look Picture Quote #1

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works Picture Quote #1

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone Picture Quote #1

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And even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter Picture Quote #1

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet Picture Quote #1

As long as you live and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours Picture Quote #1

[On Ted Williams's last baseball game at Fenway Park, boston, mass. :] Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the um- pires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he never had and did not now. Gods do not answer letters Picture Quote #1

I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without heat or shock, it can't be done. I believe that's why sexual love, which needn't be, is so intensely intertwined with sin Picture Quote #1

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men Picture Quote #1

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As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours (Ter Quotes) I grew up in the 1930's Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow (Ter Quotes) Writers take words seriously - perhaps the last professional class that does - and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader (Ter Quotes) The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents (Ter Quotes) I like the race, rather than the winning. Do you really? Yes, I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races. The races are better (Ter Quotes) Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead? (Ter Quotes) In the same way that certain sections of the city were mortal battlegrounds, some parts of the calendar were always more warlike than others, and during the days between Christmas and the new year all elements seemed to conspire to subdue the soul. Fire, rain, sickness, cold, and death were everywhere spread through the dark as in a painting of hell. People struggled until exhaustion, giving everything they had, and the days were packed with trials and mysteries (Ter Quotes) Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both (Ter Quotes) The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience (Ter Quotes) The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified (Ter Quotes) Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen (Ter Quotes) To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too (Ter Quotes) When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept - the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation (Ter Quotes) Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find (Ter Quotes) But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography (Ter Quotes) Education... beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor (Ter Quotes) Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better (Ter Quotes) If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money (Ter Quotes) The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all (Ter Quotes) Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit (Ter Quotes) Their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals (Ter Quotes) But the long tunnels of art through which I walked in Rome that day had no ragged edges, cowardly colors, or shades of pastel that didn't know what to do with themselves. The wisdom, perfection, and beauty of the colors and forms I passed were more than enough, in their collectivity, to hint at the principles which govern the hereafter, whatever that may be. Indeed, even a detail of one painting can offer solid direction in this regard if one knows how to look (Ter Quotes) Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works (Ter Quotes) Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone (Ter Quotes) And even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter (Ter Quotes) Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet (Ter Quotes) As long as you live and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours (Ter Quotes) [On Ted Williams's last baseball game at Fenway Park, boston, mass. :] Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the um- pires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he never had and did not now. Gods do not answer letters (Ter Quotes) I think it takes some terrible or great event to fuse two people together without inhibition. Without heat or shock, it can't be done. I believe that's why sexual love, which needn't be, is so intensely intertwined with sin (Ter Quotes) Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men (Ter Quotes)

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