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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life. Sarah Vowell deathhatelife Change image and share on social
Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead. Sarah Vowell deadjeffersonjesus Change image and share on social
I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old. Sarah Vowell conandailykind Change image and share on social
The thrill of a photo-realist painter is if you get really close to the painting, it looks just like a photograph. Whereas in my case, if you get close to my paintings, they totally fall apart - so I'm about as far from a photo-realist as it gets. Marilyn Minter caseclosefall share on social
Most ecclesiastical relics are fixed in time at the moment of their manufacture. That is why they are offered for veneration in casings that resemble pocket watches. They have lost their claim to mystery because they are so clearly the products of time. Eugene Kennedy casingclaimecclesiastical share on social
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. Emanuel Swedenborg divinedominionlife Change image and share on social
