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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the liv...more

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I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.

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Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot.

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...because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours.

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When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations ...more

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Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth...more

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No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship yo...more

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Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been t...more

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I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

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When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again."That is the best of all thi...more

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His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the...more

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All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

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In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to s...more

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Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.