perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer. - Hortense Calisher

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There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher. ' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.

Hortense Calisher

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

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What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

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The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

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