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“Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“cultures define their gods when they’re young and primitive, when their main concern is survival. They endow their gods with survival characteristics like omnipotence and authoritarianism, belligerence and suspicion, and that’s what goes into all their myths or scriptures. Then, if they survive long enough, they begin to develop morality. They examine their own history, and they learn that authoritarianism doesn’t accord with free will, that belligerence and suspicion are unhealthful, but this newly moral culture is stuck with its bigoted, interfering gods, plus it’s stuck with people who prefer the old bloody gods and use them as their justification for doing all kinds of awful things.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Fresco

“Quand je me tanne de compter toutes les façons dont on va collectivement crever, je m'attarde après le souper pour observer les joueurs d'échecs.”
― Michèle Laframboise, Rose du désert

“Ma mémoire est comme un de ces grillages qui tamisent le minerai. Les gros cailloux restent, mais le sable et l'eau passent à travers les mailles.”
― Michèle Laframboise, Rose du désert