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About Jay Parini
American writer and academic
Jay Parini is an American writer and academic, known for fiction, poetry, biography, and criticism. He has published 96 quotes on the site. His work includes novels centered on Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, Paul the Apostle, and Herman Melville, along with a novelized memoir about a road trip with Jorge Luis Borges. Across these books, he often works at the border between literary history and imagined life, drawing on figures from the canon and the idea of the writer as subject.
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More Religion quotes
- “We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning scie…”Joe Dispenza
- “The Holy Scripture is Spirit-taught words.”Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy,…”Reinhold Niebuhr
God: more sayings
- “If God has given me this many large blessings in such little time, why not help the people that need it?”Ozuna
- “When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in…”Joyce Meyer
- “The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker,…”Chuck Wendig
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Books by Jay Parini
The last station
1990
Promised Land
2008
Empire of self
2015
John Steinbeck
1994
The Apprentice Lover
2002