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Can anyone verify this quote? And isn’t it FANTASTIC?
17 August 2008 @ 12:04 | Quote for Today | 13 Comments
‘Brigham Young guessed publicly that there was a lot more singing and dancing in heaven than in hell, and he saw no reason why the saints should imitate the hot place.’
–Wallace Stegner’s ‘Mormon Country’, page 18 of the 2003 paperback edition.
Liberty, Privileges, Women, Saints?
13 April 2007 @ 06:14 | Quote for Today | 28 Comments
“Do you know of any place on the face of the earth, where [a] woman has more liberty, and where she enjoys such high and glorious privileges as she does here, as a Latter-day Saint?”
—Eliza R. Snow, as quoted by Bonnie D. Parkin in the last General Conference. If you want to see her reference [...]
Talent
25 March 2007 @ 19:27 | Quote for Today | No Comments
“‘The beautiful things we shall write if we have talent,’ Proust says, ‘are inside us, indistinct, like the memory of a melody which delights us though we are unable to recapture its outline. Those who are obsessed by this blurred memory of truths they have never known [...]
Broken Love
2 March 2007 @ 06:02 | Quote for Today | 9 Comments
“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
—-Derek Walcott from his essay, “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory.”
