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Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.
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Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."
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Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.
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You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.
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Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever.
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What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.
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If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.)
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If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?
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The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.
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The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.
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God's big enough that small doesn't matter.
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Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death.