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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

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The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that need...more

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Laughter is carbonated holiness.

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The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or s...more

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I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your mos...more

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Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.

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My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit a...more

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The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate ...more

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‎You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

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Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good a...more

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Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.

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A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of th...more

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God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

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...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.