If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
タグ: theology, philosophy, nihilism, church, christianity

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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
タグ: enough, opinion, go, think
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
タグ: ashamed, attention, nothing, never
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
タグ: southerner, tolerant, weaknesses, those, innocence
I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
タグ: doing, know, think, i-am
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
タグ: makes, conviction, without, experience
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