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Kelly Corrigan has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who…
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And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing…
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That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.
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Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute;…
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The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she…
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I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.
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Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.
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He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception…
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Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an…
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We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.
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It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once…
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We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to…
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Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was…
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I do not drink more than a sponge.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as…
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This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at…
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Take you me for a sponge?
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The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or…
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