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1. "[T]he reason why Shakespeare and Pushkin were great writers was because from the time when they were boys they stood like policemen over their thoughts and didn't allow one small insincerity to creep in." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
2. "...life without coffee is not really life." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
3. "Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
4. "The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is loyal, which he believes are the historical necessities of his times, too easily becomes a puppet. He has no external measure with which to assess reality. Whether he submits to the forces or rejects them, he becomes a parody of himself, and then without knowing it submits his gifts to the demons of his era. He loses his place in the continuity of time. He becomes dependent on social affirmation and the drug of exalted feelings common to all revolutionaries. He destroys, even as he thinks he creates." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
5. "Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
6. "A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
7. "If we do not play in the dangerous surf, we will drown in puddles." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
8. "The only indestructible palace is in the heart." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
9. "No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
10. "Happy Christmas" was their version of "Merry Christmas," and a better version, it seemed to him, for making merry was different from making happiness." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
11. "In this world are many people who do not master their bodies. Such people say that no one can tell them what to do, not even God, and they think that in this way they have no master. In the end they become slaves to anything." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
12. "Automobiles are unreliable and dangerous slaves. They frequently revolt and kill their masters. I hate them." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
13. "Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
14. "We came to know that love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
15. "Real love is a long apprenticeship." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
16. "Words are gold, split and shared as coinage, small pebbles, emblems offered back and forth-given, received; given, received-expanding the vocabulary of the soul." ~ Michael D. O'Brien
17. "Each tool reshapes the one who is apparently the master of the tool. I ask myself this: At what point does the tool, the servant, become the real master?" ~ Michael D. O'Brien

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