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writing dust skeletons
What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us. Alexandra Fuller
writing giving people
We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points. Chris Eyre
writing dust damnation
There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. Charles Spurgeon
writing tears pockets
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Charles Peguy
writing eight ideas
Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good. Dick Van Dyke
writing sometimes enough
Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you. Diane Kruger
writing analysis fiction
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. Dennis Potter
writing speech metaphor
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
writing use young
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
religion spread
Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion. Jonah Peretti
religion bandages wounds
Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.
religion different revelations
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. Denis Diderot
religion firsts steps
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
religion-and-politics supposed-to-be
Religion and politics are supposed to be separate. Eleanor Clift
religion charity doe
If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion Elbert Hubbard
religion obvious mystic
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
religion desire unseen
Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
religion important nationality
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. Eleanor Roosevelt
atheism atheist consider desire organized people religion sunday
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency. Lynn Coady
atheism devil vices
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.
atheism superstitions
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
atheism orthodoxy corpses
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
atheism metaphor creeds
A creed is an ossified metaphor.
atheism superstitions theology
Theology is Classified Superstition.
atheism earth slave
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
atheism inferiority taught
To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
atheism hebrew accepting
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.