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Jessi Waugh

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The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)

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Jessi Waugh said: " Well, so much for my dreams of being a writer. Someone else is already doing it so beautifully, I might as well be writing Dick and Jane novels. This is worth a reread, and another. “You resist fate, but the hound finds you anyway.”

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“The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

tags: inspirational, life-lessons, spirituality, wisdom

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“Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and riven......I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of an event.”
― Harold Brodkey

tags: fear, harold-brodkey, lies, life, manipulation, quotes, tremble

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“I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: anti-war, pro-peace

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“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

tags: self-realization

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“After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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