I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say. ~ Flannery O’Connor
I Write Because
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Love Is The Only Way
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Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills. ~ Leo Tolstoy
The Closer You Get To Real Matter
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is. ~ Jack Kerouac
To Know We Are Not Alone
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We read to know we are not alone. ~ C. S. Lewis
The Goose Girl By Shannon Hale
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Right now I’d like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I’d give each a black eye.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
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You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
As Necessary As Bread
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Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. ~ Mary Oliver
Read Interesting Minds
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By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Banner In The Sky By James Ramsey Ullman
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It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.