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Rita Dove

"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."

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"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."

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"We are members of the Church of Christ."

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"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."

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"Our service as believers is not complete without fellowship with people."

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"God wants to bless His church by blessing His people."

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Amber Hurdle

"We fatties have a bond, dude. It's like a secret society. We got all kinds of shit you don't know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances-we got these secret fugging lairs in the center of the earth and we go down there in the middle of the night when all the skinny kids are sleeping and eat cake and friend chicken and shit. Why d'you think Hollis is still sleeping, kafir? Because we were up all night in the secret lair injecting butter frosting into our veins. ...A fatty trusts another fatty."

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Amber Hurdle

"People are living books. The real library of life is community."

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"She watched the dark highway and entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest. And me. I was the main ingredient."

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"You get a few of them together and don't be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in."

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"The real safety net of life is community, family and nature."

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"The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something."
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"For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard."
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"I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things."
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"I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step."
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"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."
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