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"I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine."
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"I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'."
Fantasy

"It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!"
Driving

"I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine."
Appreciation

"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed."
Knowledge

"After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'"
Life

"The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking."
Society

"The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is."
Being

"I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years."
People

"Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind."
Mind

"I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step."
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"Good things quickly become habitual and we often stop valuing them."
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"You don't have to pay the sun to rise, the moon to shine, and the stars to glow."
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"Life can only be live with grace and gratitude."
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"Embrace the sweetness of life like a gift honeycomb from the hive."
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"God appreciates ordinary people."
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"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."
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"Until I saw Chardin's painting I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house in the half-cleared table in the corner of a tablecloth left awry in the knife beside the empty oyster shell."
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"Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it."
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"I have nothing to compain about. I am here to enjoy the breathtaking beauty of nature."
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"Gratitude is arriving at the point where your expectations, accumulation and anticipations make way for appreciation, reflection and celebration."
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