Quotes from Michael Flynn

Each man sees what his own experience has taught him.

One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.

One finds both good men and bad in the Church. By our fruits we will be known, not by what name we have called ourselves. I have come to believe that there is more grace in becoming wheat then there is in pulling up weeds.

Of this his head was convinced, however doubtful his bowels.

While July read, Tom listened with his eyes closed. This was a trick of his whenever he wanted to concentrate on what he heard. By shutting down one information flow he thought to heighten his attention on the other. However, he was never known to put his fingers in his ears when he wanted to see something clearly.

Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not. Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.

He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about it.

If you look in the dictionary under 'white trash' there's a picture of my family." from BREAKFAST WITH NERUDA, p 37

You priests say to forgive your enemy, and that is well, or revenge follows revenge until eternity. But between a man who will stop at nothing, and one who will hesitate at anything, the advantage is generally to the former. The pagans had it right, too – it is a false peace to be over-forgiving.

No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another's

Niederhochwald. She seemed determined to work her way through the