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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your…
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and…
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now…
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable…
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down…
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to…
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When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I…
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I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I…
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Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage…
— Anne Lamott
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When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.
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I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all;…
— Marlon James
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Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader…
— John Updike
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I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen…
— Hillary Clinton
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