Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)
“The Devil doesn't make us do anything.”
Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world."
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Source: The Duchess of Padua
James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer
Source: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter II
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Context: A man’ s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
“When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register. ”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Madame Nhu (1924–2011) First lady of South Vietnam
In response to Diệm and Nhu, assassination in a coup d’état led by General Dương Văn Minh (Armed Forces Council) http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2013/10/05/
