“The profound originality of a divine-human pact in which both parties complain endlessly about each other has too rarely been acknowledged as such.”
― Jack Miles, quote from God: A Biography
“Lord can restore a covenant with Israel and yet continue”
― Jack Miles, quote from God: A Biography
Jack Miles
Born place: Chicago, Illinois, The United States
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“Another Chief remembered that since the Great Father promised them that they would never be moved they had been moved five times. "I think you had better put the Indians on wheels," he said sardonically, "and you can run them about whenever you wish.”
― Dee Brown, quote from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.”
― Muriel Barbery, quote from The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from 1Q84
“You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it.”
― Thomas Hardy, quote from Jude the Obscure
“Will Mars be always in your windy tongue and in your flying feet?”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
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