Joy Hester quotes

“Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet.”
-- Joy Hester

Source : Joy Hester, Sunday Reed (1997). “Dear Sun: The Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed”

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“I am quite reactionary about Aussies travelling. Why, we've only been here a hundred years. What can be added by going before we are here? - that is not right but for we are here, but only just here. If we don't hold what we have we may never find it again, so delicate a thing it is, yet it gives the appearance of being overpowerful on close examination... I don't think a change of location can answer our questions.”
-- Joy Hester

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“It is really a tightrope sort of thing, living.”
-- Joy Hester

“When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.”

“To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.”

“Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord”

“Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.”

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”

“She started walking toward me and perfect white teeth caught her full bottom lip between them. I’d fantasized about those lips way too many times. She’d barely covered up her long tanned legs with a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church this Sunday just to thank God for creating her.”

“All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.”

“Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.”

“I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.”

“Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.”