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"There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."
"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."
"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
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"I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last."
"The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it."
"I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget."
"I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!"
"I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment."
"But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God."
"I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness."
"The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true."
"It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me."
"That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?"
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