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"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding."
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"To live in infinite bliss, practice mindfulness and live in the moment."

"In quietness we find inner peace."

"If forgiveness, kindness and humanity could have changed something; today we would have been living a peaceful world."

"Peace begins with you and your unconditional forgiveness."

"To find true peace, forgive those who fill your mind with hatred and instead show them the path of love."

"How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana."

"For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are."
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"People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work."


"The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable."


"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."


"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave."


"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."


"When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance."


"The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles."


"There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form."
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