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Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
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1980
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Sight Hound
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2004
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Waltzing the Cat
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1999
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A Little More About Me
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1999
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Contents May Have Shifted
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2012
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Men Before Ten A.M.
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1996
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The Unsavvy Traveler: Women�s Comic Tales of Catastrophe
by Pam Houston (Goodreads Author) , Rosemary Caperton , Anne Mathews  3.31 avg rating — 35 ratings
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2005
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Women on Hunting: Essays, Fiction, and Poetry
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1994
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A Rough Guide To The Heart
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2000
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Dog is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship
by Bark Editors, Claudia Kawczynska , Alice Walker 3.89 avg rating — 338 ratings
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2003
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| This might be the best first novel I have ever read. I mean even counting the famous ones by dead people. The writing is rich and lyrical. The emotions complex. The math theory is super smart and compelling, without detracting from the emotional punc...more | |
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| This book is so beautiful it almost makes me want to cry to talk about it. This is absolutely required reading for any woman(or really any person) who has ever had to choose when to stay silent and when to speak. | |
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“I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves. ”
― Pam Houston
― Pam Houston
“Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.”
― Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
― Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
“Do you write novels?" I said.
"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat
"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat
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| Constant Reader: What I'm Reading - February 2012 | 321 | 126 | Mar 01, 2012 05:34am |
“I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves. ”
― Pam Houston
― Pam Houston
“Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.”
― Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
― Pam Houston, Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories
“Do you write novels?" I said.
"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat
"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.”
― Pam Houston, Waltzing the Cat
“The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.”
― Pam Houston
― Pam Houston
“I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.”
― Pam Houston
― Pam Houston
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