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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

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I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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Honor is the presence of God in man.
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I loved my parents… but that can never change the fact that my father’s violence ruined my childhood.
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