Australian - Writer | April 26, 1916 - October 9, 1999
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West
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I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.
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Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
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One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
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All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
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Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.
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There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.
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You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
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Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
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The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
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