We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad. - Clive Barker

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Most people think that there is a monarchy, where God is the king and we are the subjects, and the subjects are inferior to this invisible king. But not only are we inferior, we are also stained by sin, and therefore, untrustworthy.

Clive Barker

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

Burn, Crazy, Light, Littles, Sad, Shed

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I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

Believe, Firmly, Good, Stories, Story, Villain

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Nothing, Place, Spring, Stories, Story, Writing

I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway. Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best. I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers.

Comradeship, Dream, Hand, Hands, Like, Unity

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

Grateful, Mad, Madness, Sane

…there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at.

Fun, Good, Nothing, World

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Peter Laughner

Here I sit, sober and perhaps even lucid, on the sort of winter's day that makes you realize a New Year is just around the corner and you've got very little to show for it, but if you are going to get anything done on this planet, you better pick it up with both hands and DO IT YOURSELF.

Hands, Lucid, New Year, Sober, Sort, Winter

Joseph Rotblat

Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding our common property, humankind, will require developing in each of us a new loyalty: a loyalty to mankind. It calls for the nurturing of a feeling of belonging to the human race. We have to become world citizens.

Diversity, Humankind, Loyalty, Message, Race, World

Leo Tolstoy

At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?

Believe, Dust, God, Hands, Love, Turning

Wayne Dyer

God, Kings, People, Subjects, Thinking, Untrustworthy

January Jones

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

Dad, Lived, Sports, Teacher, Ten