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“You own everything that happend to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
-- Anne Lamott”
― Doreen Carvajal

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
― André Berthiaume

“Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.”
― William Law

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process

“Few are guilty, but all are responsible.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets

“When you are in doubt as to which you should serve forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle for this is everything.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
― Anne Sexton

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott