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N.D. Wilson Quote: “If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?”

51. “If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.”

52. “Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “Stories are like catechisms, but they’re catechisms for your impulses, they’re catechisms with flesh on.”

53. “Stories are like catechisms, but they’re catechisms for your impulses, they’re catechisms with flesh on.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don’t imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants.”

54. “Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don’t imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants.”

— N.D. Wilson

N.D. Wilson Quote: “Anastasia reached the attic stairs, slowed down, and listened. She knew that the first step to asking about secrets is seeing how much you can find out by sneaking.”

55. “Anastasia reached the attic stairs, slowed down, and listened. She knew that the first step to asking about secrets is seeing how much you can find out by sneaking.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “Mistakes don’t just hang on the wall like ugly pictures. Mistakes are seeds.” He thumbed his chest. “In here. They grow. They take over. You make a mistake, you gotta make it right. Dig that seed out. Old Wiz used to say, ‘Fruit rots, wood rots, but lazy-ass boys rot the fastest.”

56. “Mistakes don’t just hang on the wall like ugly pictures. Mistakes are seeds.” He thumbed his chest. “In here. They grow. They take over. You make a mistake, you gotta make it right. Dig that seed out. Old Wiz used to say, ‘Fruit rots, wood rots, but lazy-ass boys rot the fastest.”

— N.D. Wilson

N.D. Wilson Quote: “Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others...”

57. “Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others...”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “It is easy to be numb to the world’s marvels when you’ve missed lunch and the light is still red.”

58. “It is easy to be numb to the world’s marvels when you’ve missed lunch and the light is still red.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “I’ve watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I’ve seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.”

59. “I’ve watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I’ve seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a once upon it.”

60. “In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a once upon it.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “If someone else was wearing your attitude, would you be impressed?”

61. “If someone else was wearing your attitude, would you be impressed?”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “What is this world? What is it for? It is art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite picture of the Infinite.”

62. “What is this world? What is it for? It is art. It is the best of all possible art, a finite picture of the Infinite.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.”

63. “Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “If someone else was delivering your lines, would you like them? If someone else was wearing your attitude, would you be impressed?”

64. “If someone else was delivering your lines, would you like them? If someone else was wearing your attitude, would you be impressed?”

— N.D. Wilson

N.D. Wilson Quote: “Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother’s newest fridge, but a number doesn’t really describe his age.”

65. “Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother’s newest fridge, but a number doesn’t really describe his age.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “Family is, of course, wonderful. Three cheers for family, et cetera. At another time, we could even peruse old photo albums and speak of cousins; unfortunately, we really do have urgent business to attend to.”

66. “Family is, of course, wonderful. Three cheers for family, et cetera. At another time, we could even peruse old photo albums and speak of cousins; unfortunately, we really do have urgent business to attend to.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “Every four years, I’ll watch figure skating, but I’m no closer to buying tights.”

67. “Every four years, I’ll watch figure skating, but I’m no closer to buying tights.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “We are characters – spoken and shaped down to the rhythms of the electrons in our toe fungus. But we are also active. We have been shaped in the Shaper’s image.”

68. “We are characters – spoken and shaped down to the rhythms of the electrons in our toe fungus. But we are also active. We have been shaped in the Shaper’s image.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “Evolution has produced us more recently, and that makes us the smartest ever. After all, we invented the parking lot.”

69. “Evolution has produced us more recently, and that makes us the smartest ever. After all, we invented the parking lot.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see.”

70. “I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “Butter laughed beneath sea salt, and gravy anointed them both.”

71. “Butter laughed beneath sea salt, and gravy anointed them both.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “You know,′ Reg said, ‘we’re going to get out. We really are. Even if we have to let fire to the ceiling.’ He glopped jam onto a white crawdad tail with a grit covered finger. ‘But we have to eat enough of this so that we get sick and die a couple days after.”

72. “You know,′ Reg said, ‘we’re going to get out. We really are. Even if we have to let fire to the ceiling.’ He glopped jam onto a white crawdad tail with a grit covered finger. ‘But we have to eat enough of this so that we get sick and die a couple days after.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “In the end, he would say goodbye to them all, or they would say goodbye to him. Life would pass. They would all find their ends. But not now. Not yet. For now, they were alive. Together. And that was enough.”

73. “In the end, he would say goodbye to them all, or they would say goodbye to him. Life would pass. They would all find their ends. But not now. Not yet. For now, they were alive. Together. And that was enough.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “Every rock is spoon by the Word. Every time I touch a stone, I am touching the Voice of God. Every cell of me is crafted by that artistry. My life is His breath. But we mortals grow numb. We want to feel more. And so we add MSG to our earthly brands of holiness.”

74. “Every rock is spoon by the Word. Every time I touch a stone, I am touching the Voice of God. Every cell of me is crafted by that artistry. My life is His breath. But we mortals grow numb. We want to feel more. And so we add MSG to our earthly brands of holiness.”

— N.D. Wilson

N.D. Wilson Quote: “Every culture has felt the overwhelming pressure of existence itself and the need to explain it.”

75. “Every culture has felt the overwhelming pressure of existence itself and the need to explain it.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “When the sugarcane’s burning and the rabbits are running, look for the boys who are quicker than flame.”

76. “When the sugarcane’s burning and the rabbits are running, look for the boys who are quicker than flame.”

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N.D. Wilson Quote: “The best-lived lives still end.”

77. “The best-lived lives still end.”

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