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"Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness."
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"Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace."
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"Employment sells out the future life."
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"We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving."
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"Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for their families and their husbands and their children. They cut up the finest and proudest parts of themselves and gave it all away. They repatterned what was theirs and shaped it for others. They went without. They were the last ones to eat at supper, and they were the first ones to get up every morning, warming the cold kitchen for another day spent caring for everyone else. This was the only thing they knew how to do. This was their guiding verb and their defining principle of life: They gave."
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"Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness."
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"Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero."
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"Life demands death to self."
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"We became God's carriers because of the sacrifice of Jesus."
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"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
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"Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response."
Sacrifice
"My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work."
Work
"In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that."
Time
"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."
Poems
"I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing."
Love
"I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it."
Job
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
Work
"As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other."
Reading
"To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go."
Life
"When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms."
Life
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