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“There’s a big difference between us. I write nonfiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tell lies. You write lies that tell truths.”
“The past doesn’t leave us, but we can leave it,” he said. “The past isn’t us any more than we’re the road we drove here on.
Some people use the Bible as medicine. Others use it as poison.
There is nothing simple about simple kindness. Neither she nor I will ever know how much suffering she has saved me from.
Funny how a little perspective can move mountains.
It seems to me that there was a time when hard work was more prized than the clever avoidance of it.
there were different castes in America. People were divided not just by race but by money and fame.
“Matthew thirteen forty-five and forty-six,”
Walking through peaceful grounds years after the battle, the soldier can still hear the cannons.
When the space shuttle reenters the earth’s atmosphere, it faces intense temperatures of more than three thousand degrees. Lately, that’s what reentry feels like to me too.
