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Quotes by Author
"Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being."
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"Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana."
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"Sometimes life seems a dark tunnel with no light at the end, but if you just keep moving forward, you will end up in a better place."
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"Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage " to be oneself, no matter what others might say."
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"There is no greater freedom than the freedom to desire. There is no greater desire than the desire to be free."
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"How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On the Same Side?"
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"A lamb in a city of wolves."
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"The difference between the old Testament and the new testament is that God doesn't want sacrifices anymore."
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"Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive."
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"Money will never be as precious as this one life we live."
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"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
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"All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more gems. The suffering is forgotten or ignored - why sorrow? The war victims aren't our people. And then the wheel turns and suddenly they are our people."
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"Don't ever let anyone bring you down, define who you are or destroy your AWESOMENESS."
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"A splendid sacred season!"
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"A daydream is an evasion."
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"Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever."
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"You cannot write if you are not angry."
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"Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter."
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"The more complicated this society becomes, the greater the need is to simplify your life."
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"But those two circles, above all the point at which they touched, are the very thing I am mourning for, homesick for, famished for. You tell me 'she goes on.' But my heart and body are crying out, come back, come back. Be a circle, touching my circle on the plane of Nature. But I know this is impossible. I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get."
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"Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds."
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"When you dance, you measure distance as if it's a solid thing; you make precise judgments every time two bodies exist in relation to each other. So I knew right away the definition of the space between us."
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"If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write."
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"All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others."
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"Lend your ear then to this tutti of steeples; diffuse over the whole the buzz of half a million of human beings, the eternal murmur of the river, the infinite piping of the wind, the grave and distant quartet of the four forests placed like immense organs on the four hills of the horizon; soften down, as with a demi-tint, all that is too shrill and too harsh in the central mass of sound, and say if you know any thing in the world more rich, more gladdening, more dazzling than that tumult of bells; than that furnace of music; than those ten thousand brazen tones breathed all at once from flutes of stone three hundred feet high; than that city which is but one orchestra; than that symphony rushing and roaring like a tempest."
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"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence"."
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"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."
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"Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles."
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"We have come to love darkness of religion rather than striving to understand how the world is supposed to function."
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"Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened."
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"When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong."
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"You think it's me that you love, but it's really the God in me that you see. It's the God in me that you love. It's true. It's why we love you too. It's the God in you that looks at me and the God in me that looks back at you. It's just the Big Bang God in love with Himself."
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"What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him."
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