The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
--Flannery O'Connor
Favorite Tomes, Treatises and Novels
The Divine Comedy
Silmarillion
Crime and Punishment
Oresteia
The Odyssey
Mystery and Manners
Lord of the Rings
Orthodoxy
Chronicles of Narnia
Story of a Soul
Sense and Sensibility
War and Peace
Surprised By Joy
Leisure as the Basis of Culture
"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain" - Louisa May Alcott
C.S. Lewis
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." - C.S. Lewis
"To persist in asking, as so many of us do, ‘What did you mean by this book?’ is to invite bafflement: the book itself is what the writer means.” - Dorothy Sayers
"Words, after speech, reach into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness, as a Chinese jar still Moves perpetually in its stillness."
T.S. Eliot
Favorite Authors
T.S. Eliot
Walker Percy
Aristotle
Charles Williams
Charlotte Bronte
CS Lewis
Dorothy Sayers
Dostoevsky
Evelyn Waugh
Flannery O'Connor
Oscar Wilde
Jane Austen
JRR Tolkien
PG Wodehouse
Shakespeare
St. Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Howard
Tolstoy
GK Chesterton
"The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say."
Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things pass away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing; God alone suffices.
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