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When you write humor, the core concept you’re writing about has to be funny. It is, in fact, the most important part of your writing. So, you need to get it right. The greatest, funniest writing in the world will not save a bad concept. But
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“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
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“A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. ”
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“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting �
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting �
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―

“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
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“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Interview with the Vampire
― Interview with the Vampire

InterVarsity Press has been publishing excellent Christian books for more than 50 years. With topics spanning all areas of Christian interest, IVP pub ...more

Students past and present of Regent College in Vancouver, BC.

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