“The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.”
Source: Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
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“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”
Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility
Source: Sense and Sensibility
Damien Hirst (1965) artist
Kuhn, Nicola, "You can puff all you like Damien, but the wind's gone out of Britart" http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1999/mar/16/features11.g21, The Guardian, 16 March 1999.
“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor
"The Songbook of Sebastian Arrurruz" II. King Log.
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“It was both true, and not the complete truth, like so much of his talk.”
Paul J. McAuley (1955) British writer
Source: Four Hundred Billion Stars (1988), Chapter 3 “The Keep” (p. 197)