Top 47 Andrew Klavan Quotes
#1. Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.
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#2. In the darkness, I had been afraid that he was evil. At dawn, I realized he had been my friend and guardian, watching over me all night long.
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#3. Freud, in effect, had declared that all spiritual things were merely symbols of the flesh. In the delivery room, for the first time, it had seemed to me that he had gotten it exactly the wrong way round. Our flesh was the symbol. It was the love that was real. Why,
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#4. Anyway, God is not susceptible to proofs and disproofs. If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don't believe, no evidence can be enough.
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#5. No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.
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#6. I'll be fine. My fear will keep me warm."
She laughed. I think it was the first time I'd heard her laugh, and I looked at her in surprise.
"You're funny," she said.
"Oh yeah, I'm a laughing riot.
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#7. The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, "Look how honest I am.
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#8. You know what it's like," said Storm, "when you want to
just
pour a woman into a glass and
just-drink her
just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?
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#9. Just dismissing them gave me a kind of power over them. That was the whole method of the con, even when I was conning myself. These
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#10. Don't worry about anything. Pray about everything ... Put your hands together and point your soul toward the light of God.
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#11. Every evil weaves itself into the fabric of history, never to be undone. Yet at the same time - at the very same time - each of us gets a new soul with which to start the world again. It
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#12. Love, I saw now, was an exterior spiritual force that swept through our bodies in the symbolic forms of eros, then bound us materially, skin and bone, in the symbolic moment of birth.
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#13. They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul.
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#14. Even the lowest form of humor - maybe especially the lowest, the most basic form - suggests that we were intended to be something higher than ourselves.
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#15. And the air
I don't know how to describe it exactly
it had that strange cool spring feeling in it, that feeling as if you remember something wonderful but you're not quite sure what it is.
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#16. the very fact that the mind can be deceived implies that it can be not deceived, that it can know things rightly - deep things - beauty, truth - just as they are.
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#17. Even the kingdom of evil came to seem to me like only the empty space where true love might have been.
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#18. If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money ... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.
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#19. It's always the voice of God they try to silence first.
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#21. The world always seems like it's going to hell when you're depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That's what makes it so hard to tell the difference between Armageddon and the blues.
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#22. There may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen
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#23. In dreams begin responsibilities," as the poet Yeats said,
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#24. I'm a professional journalist. Making up lies to fit the facts - it's what we do.
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#25. A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you'll choose the feather every single time.
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#26. Our moral decisions about ourselves can be spiritual. Our moral decisions about other people can only be practical.
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#27. Does God know I'm still here? Does God know it's still me inside?"
"Sure He does! Of course He does! He's right with you. he's right there."
"Because I feel really alone sometimes."
"You're not alone." I move to her, put my hand on her shoulder. "You're not, believe me.
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#29. Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.
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#30. If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.
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#31. You cannot know the truth about the world until you know God loves you, because that is the truth about the world.
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#32. Most people have to die to get to Hell. I took a shortcut.
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#33. I'd left them because I'd loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved them, and if I had a chance to protect them from the people who wanted to destroy them then I had to take that chance even if it meant I would never see them again.
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#34. Funny how people don't really see each other. Men and women. They invent each other in their minds and then they see what they invent.They don't really see each other. Now she was in love with him and she didn't even know his real name, didn't know anything real about him.
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#35. Have you ever had to get through a day, smiling at people, talking, as if everything were normal and okay, while all the time you felt like you were carrying a leaden weight of unhappiness inside you?
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#36. It's too bad you can't always live as if it were the last moment of your life. Because, you know, it might be-it might really be. And if we could really see it that way, really live like that, I think we'd all feel a lot differently about everything.
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#37. know myself in them, through them. Because they are what we've become. Every blessing from soup bowls to salvation they discovered for us.
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#38. For instance, I love the movie Casablanca. Who doesn't? No matter how many egghead critics declare Citizen Kane to be the greatest American movie, we all know it's Casablanca in fact.
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#39. Alex got angry at me because he said I didn't understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn't understand. Not then.
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#40. The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.
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#41. If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don't believe, no evidence can be enough. All
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#42. You cannot know yourself alone, any more than you can see your own face without a mirror.
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#43. This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.
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#44. what had appeared accidental to me in the past, now often seemed to bear the imprint of supernatural intent. Once you see it you can't unsee it: the supernatural is not supernatural; the ordinary world is suffused with the miraculous. Here
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#45. it sometimes seems to me the entire postmodern assault on the concept of truth has been staged to avoid just this conclusion: some cultures are simply more productive than others
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#46. Morality is not a one not song. It's a harmony of obligations to man and God.
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#47. The world had no beauty of its own. The beauty of the world was created in the human experience, in me. The very fact of beauty, the very idea that something could be beautiful, only existed in me. The point was not to see the world....The point was to experience the world.
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