...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

Michael Herr

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Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

Stephanie Klein

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For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

Kirby Michael Wright

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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Elbert Hubbard

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A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself.

Kate Braestrup

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Sometimes I feel she hasn't left...especially when I wear the photo charm necklace with her picture in it.
I can't tell you how many young men have stared into that picture and the reaction is always the same: a slow beam rises across their faces and they want to know all about her.

They become entranced the way Dana Andrews did when he first saw Gene Tierney's portrait in "Laura." I know Maria finds all of this quite amusing; why shouldn't she? 'Laura' is her middle name.

Pamela Palmer Mutino

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I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.

Karen Armstrong

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Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Ariel Gore

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Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.

Mark Matousek

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In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.

John Grogan

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