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• The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.
• There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.
• It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
• As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time…
• Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give…
• Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter,
• Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.
• Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.
• It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.
• I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written…
• What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.
• Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

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