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Book cover for The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
They placed their lives on hold for a group of strangers and asked for nothing in return. They affirmed the basic goodness of man at a time when it was easy to doubt such humanity still existed. If the terrorists had hoped their attacks ...more
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Alice Walker
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker

Robert A. Heinlein
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

V.S. Naipaul
“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Anaïs Nin
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
Anais Nin

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