Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROYBaseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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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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The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves.
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I’ve always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
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I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
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