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"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."
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"Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover."

"The question "who am I" is the first question that every person should ask himself."

"The time we are living in is a significant time."

"Every human being is a reflection of this universe."

"Find a place to think and a person to love and be happy."

"The purpose of our activities on earth must go beyond bread and butter or merely surviving."

"Take one minute every day and think hard about your life. You will always change for the best."

"Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations."

"If you don't want to regret your life later, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life. Measure your life by the products and by the results you produce!"

"One secret to wisdom: think more, speak less. If you let your words be few, your troubles will not be many."
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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."

"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."

"If chained is where you have been, your ams will always bear marks of the shackles. What you have to lose is your story, your own slant. You'll look at the scars on your arms and see mere ugliness, or you'll take great care to look away from them and see nothing. Either way, you have no words for the story of where you came from."

"A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we do. It's not what they do." Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out of the conversation just like that. "Then what do you think the news people drive their Jeeps all the way out here for?" "To shore up the prevailing view of their audience and sponsors." "Pete takes a dim view of his fellow humans," Ovid said. "He prefers insects. Dellarobia turned her chair halfway around to face Pete, scraping noisily against the cement floor. "You're saying people only tune in to news they know they're going to agree with?" "Bingo," said Pete."

"Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. Betrayal is a friend I have known a long time, a two-faced goddess looking forward and back with a clear, earnest suspicion of good fortune."

"This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address."

"Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet."
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