Top 12 Morris L. West Quotes
#1. I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.
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#2. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.
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#3. If you spend your life waiting for the sun you'll never enjoy the storm.
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#4. The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold ... " A warning against the smugness of inherited faith.
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#5. The truth ? the truth my dear Ashely is a luxury available only to those who are not involved in its consequences
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#6. We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings.
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#7. If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
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#8. [The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn't it?
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#9. History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future
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#10. If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.
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#11. He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.
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#12. Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.
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