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My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
– Charles Baxter

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  7. Beliefs are stronger than mere ideas, thoughts and notions, be careful about what you believe. – Amit Kalantri
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  9. and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions – Thomas More
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  14. [T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation. – Charles Baxter
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  16. The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything. – Charles Baxter
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  20. Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
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  22. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
  23. We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
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  25. The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. – CS Lewis
  26. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. – Charles Caleb Colton
  27. God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it! – Israelmore Ayivor
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  29. The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374). – Richard Baxter
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  39. For much of my life, I existed in a condition of regret, a regret that was contemporaneous with experience, and which sometimes preceded experience. – Greg Baxter
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