“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and glory, but why do people half my age think that they don't have faith unless their faith is small and comprehensible and like a good old plastic Jesus?
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“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
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