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John C. Hawkes

"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."

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"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"I find beauty in every sacred moment."

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"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."

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"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."

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"The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I."

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Amber Hurdle

"Better to be dirty than dead."

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"God is not ecstatic about the lack you are experiencing; He is not delightful over your failures, He is not happy about your stagnancy."

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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

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"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"

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"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
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"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."
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"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
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"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."
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"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
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"In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old."
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"My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead."
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"I do not feel an exile from America in any sense."
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