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About me:

"Harold did that which had terrified him before...that which had eluded him Monday through Friday for so many years...that which those unrelenting lyrics of numerous punk rock songs told him to do...Harold Crick lived his life." --Stranger Than Fiction

"No; oddly enough I am not quite hopeless. There is one insane little hope that I cannot get out of my mind. The power of this whole planet is against us, yet I cannot help wondering whether this one silly little hope is hopeless yet."

"In what or whom is your only hope?" asked Syme with curiosity.

"In a man I never saw," said the other, looking at the leaden sea. --G.K.Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

"Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he was not sure of his footing, where he might be walking on the water and not know it, and then suddenly know it and drown." --Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor

"Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed,’ cried the phantom, ‘not to know that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed! Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness! Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunities misused! Yet such was I! Oh, such was I!’ ‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. ‘Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. ‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!’ --Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol