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"How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective."
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"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."
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"If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car."
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"See life for what it is - a blessing to be lived - rather than what is so often reduced to, a problem to be fixed."
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"We cannot compare our position to the people in this world."
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"Build your life not on the things of today, but on the things of tomorrow."
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"Focus your energy on the fragrance and beauty of the petals not on the thorns."
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"How you see the world may not be how others view it."
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"Sticking to old and narrow views of life makes us look foolish in God."
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"To have wealth does not mean you love money, you can love money and not even have a cent."
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"Three weeks ago, he'd seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it's important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion."
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"A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized."
Writing
"Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair."
Fight
"Some girls are taught to be sexy."
Girls
"How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective."
Perspective
"If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect."
Business
"In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time."
Time
"I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me."
Gender
"Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that."
Experience
"Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would."
Society
"I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political."
Work
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