"I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target."

Hope, Being, Disappointments

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"I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target."

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"If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life."

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"Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be."

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"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."

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"Be brave enough to listen to your heart, be bold enough to hope for the best."

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"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."

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"I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things . . .People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story."

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"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."

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"I've spent my life supporting myself."

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"It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant."

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