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What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy. . . and then he went and ministered to them both. This, I think, is the difference between charity and justice. Justice means moving beyond the dichotomy between those who need and those who supply and confronting the frightening and beautiful reality that we desperately need one another.

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John Dufresne

Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.

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The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong. There are consequences to our actions or inactions. Disregard can be an act of violence.

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Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.

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The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

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Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and edit, but to open up and discover. The energetic prose comes about from all the energy that went into crafting it, I suppose.

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Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

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What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy. . . and then he went and ministered to them both. This, I think, is the difference between charity and justice. Justice means moving beyond the dichotomy between those who need and those who supply and confronting the frightening and beautiful reality that we desperately need one another.

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When you allow desire, anger and frustration to dominate you, you are losing power.

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