"I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and……" — Lori Lansens
"I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I can't trust my computer, though I couldn't do without it. Books are matter. My books matter. What would I have done through these years without the library and all its lovely books?"
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Lori Lansens
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13 Quotes by Lori Lansens
Lori Lansens has 13 quotes on this site.
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Art isn't a product. It's an experience
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The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people…
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Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,'…
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The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them…
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If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for…
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How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.
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Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.
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I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a…
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If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing…
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I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass…
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What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?
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the only thing left to do is love
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right…
— Kate Atkinson
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
— Cecil Beaton
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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
— Theodore Bikel
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection…
— Unknown Author
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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers -…
— Bob Goodlatte
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world…
— George McGovern
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one…
— Charlotte Mason
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of…
— Ronald Reagan
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