Have you ever thought about a Twelve Step program for people who talk too much? You could call it On and On Anon.
At the risk of descending to unscientific generalizations, 90 percent of Texans give the other 10 percent a bad name. -
Her life had been blessedly unburdened by happiness. When some period of fleeting contentment ended, Sofia Mendes did not register it as outrageous, but merely noted a return to life’s normal conditio...
It was then that she experienced an instant of unprecedented clarity, a moment of wholly unanticipated certainty that God was real. The sensation fled almost as quickly as it came but left in its wake...
Its not lying, it's remembering things the way they should have been.
The single craziest thing about being a priest, he’d found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life. One of his linguistics professors, a man named Sam...
Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between ‘That doesn’t make sense’ and ‘I don’t understand.’ Then I must be very wisdom. I don’t understand anything.
Maybe God is only the most powerful poetic idea we humans’re capable of thinkin’, he said one night, after a few drinks. Maybe God has no reality outside our minds and exists only in the paradox of Pe...
Like we say back home, when you find a turtle settin’ on top of a fencepost, you can be pretty damn sure he didn’t get there on his own.
Privileged to share in the athletic power of a large and dangerous animal willing to be controlled by the small, frail strength of a mere human being.
Dünyadaki hüznün yarısı seni istemeyen birini istemektir,
You know what? I really resent the idea that the only reason someone might be good or moral is because they're religious. I do what I do, Anne said, biting off each word, without hope of reward or fea...
So God just leaves? John asked, angry where Emilio had been desolate. Abandons creation? You’re on your own, apes. Good luck! No. He watches. He rejoices. He weeps. He observes the moral drama of huma...
Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he i...
Bein' born is craps. How we live is . Mamma played a bad hand well.
Bein' born is craps, he decided. He glanced at Morg and let loose that sly, lopsided smile of his. How we live is poker.
You’ve seen what, Emilio conceded, but not why! That’s where God is, Anne. In the why of it—in the meaning.
She was, after all, a practical woman and the daughter of an economist.
Eternal beginner, starting over and over in a new place in new circumstances, with new languages, new people, a new commission. They had this in common: the continual rushed confrontation with change,...
Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not...
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