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4391 Novelist Quotes

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

Have children You're obligated To live
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Nothing Matter Life Death
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

He wished Inhabited Life Better
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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

Bravest thing About people Loving Mortal beings
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

Hopes Future Consign Hypothesis
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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

You never Did anything Couldn't undo End up
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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

True life End up Just do The best
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Language Power Life Instrument
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But it has occurred to me, on occasion, that our memories of our loved ones might not be the point. Maybe the point is their memories,all that they take away with them.

On occasion Our memories Loved ones The point
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

Very thing Attracts you Someone Putting
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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

No couple Buying wedding rings Be reminded To accept
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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.

She thought A clean Simple life Have led
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It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it’s all going to end.

It make You wonder Bother accumulating We know
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I write because I want to have more than one life.

I write Want to Have more One life
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She collected and polished resentments as if it were some kind of hobby.

She collected Polished resentments Some kind Hobby
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I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life

Was born The impression What happened In books
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Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

Etiquette book Runaway wives
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Past is past,no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.

Past People Always fond Saying that
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Apparently you grow to love whom you're handed.

Apparently You grow To love Handed
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I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

Was born The impression What happened In books
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Sometimes he fantasied that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.

Sometimes Fantasied The end His life
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Those who forget the past tend to regret the future
Forget The past Tend to Regret
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The trouble with dying is you don't get to stay around and see how everything turns out.

The trouble With dying Is you How everything
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

I Understand Mystery Grace
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There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

Nothing Sweet Comeback Down
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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
Hope Pinned Image Expectation
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

You Assume God Image
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

Perfectionism Voice The Oppressor
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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

I Want Something Special
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No one can appropriate God, goodness, the Bible or Jesus. It just seems that way.

No Appropriate God Goodness
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The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

First Holy Truth God
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Experiences Alone Truth Friendship
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I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
Known Years Resentment Hurt
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Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
Pay Attention Beauty Surrounding
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The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

Reason Never Give up Hope
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If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

If Present We have Lasts forever
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These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

Cry Attention Move Joy
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It's a great time to be alive.

It's Great Time Alive
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Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Nothing Heals People Cry
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I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

Angriest Daughter Earth Most
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The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

Whistle Waiting Blown Some ways
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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

Lives Moments Look Spiritually
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Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

Presents Disappointments Life Sense
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I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

Raised Religious Training Influence
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I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.

Calmer Older Capable Feeling
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I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.

Love Serve Everyone Bring
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I think Jesus is divine love manifest on Earth, as it comes through the community of Christians.

Think Jedus Divine Love
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I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

Heard Greatest Cross Carry
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I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

Write Gift God Help
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Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

Mothers Listen Respond Wisdom
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