I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a … - Wally Lamb

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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

Wally Lamb

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

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I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.

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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.

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It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution is Property. The problem before us is, how to restore Property so that it shall be, as it was not so long ago, a general institution.

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