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Jess
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It’s given me a lot of comfort knowing we’re all rough drafts of the people we’re still becoming.
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition. ”
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