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The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the exte...

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Do you ever feel that way?""Lonely?"I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met ...

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God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it...

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th...

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And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The ...

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He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did y...

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I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...

Alright! You sir, you sir, how about a shave?Come and visit your good friend Sweeney.You sir, too si...

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Stephen SondheimSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

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V. S. NaipaulA Bend in the River

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Kaladin screamed, reaching the end of the bridge. Finding a tiny surge of strength somewhere, he rai...

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It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

We are communities in time and in a place, I know, but we are communities in faith as well - and som...

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Dorothy DayThe Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...

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This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, ...

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John IrvingA Prayer for Owen Meany