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““I didn't want to smile and say thanks. Didn't want to pretend I'd done anything except survive””

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There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

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I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

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“I didn't want to be responsible for him. I had enough to worry about. I was disintegrating, too. How was I supposed to keep…

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I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more isolating than…

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“Through those drooping branches the city sprawled out haphazardly like a drunk on a sidewalk, fallen where he may.”

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“I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it a goddamn…

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I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what…

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The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung…

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“People are going to die," he said flatly. "It's statistics." Then he got up and left the room.”

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“It's lovely to think that snow can be special. we're always told it is. Of all those million million flakes that fall, no two…

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The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.

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It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was…

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You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.…

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One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even…

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Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a…

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“A treacherous President stood in the way; and it can be easily seen how reluctant good men might be to admit an apostasy which…

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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if…

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I listen to heavy metal thanks to my son. When I argue with him on the kind of music he is listening to, he…

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“Thanks for teaching us to talk. Thanks for teaching us to be of the world and in the world and to make our way.…

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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been…

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I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session.

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…

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