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“There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.”

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“Several times that day, the name or thought of Papa had come up. And each time, Francie had felt a flash of tenderness instead…

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As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.

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“Sissy told them they were way behind the times; that midwives were things of the past. Besides, she informed them proudly, she had no…

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“Why, Mrs McGarrity's all right. Mr McGarrity's all right, too. Only I guess they aren't all right to each other.”

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“I drink because I don't stand a chance and I know it. I couldn't drive a truck and I couldn't get on the cops…

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“Pipe dreams, he thought to himself, even while he was telling her about his dream winnings. But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything…

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“Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and…

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It takes a lot of doing to die.

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“She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.”

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...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the…

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People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

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We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our…

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When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

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Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

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Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be…

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I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And…

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The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes…

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In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who…

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I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and…

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The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.…

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We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly…

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People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

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Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the…

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