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It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.
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When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.
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Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.
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But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.
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But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.
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In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.
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Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
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I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.
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We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?
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Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?
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Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile..... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.
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I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.
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The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.
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Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.
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Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were.
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"Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson." "Lake and Palmer?" "Ralph and Waldo."
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Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner
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He tried to let her know it would be all right. Eventually. Life wouldn't always be this painful. The world wouldn't always be this brutal. Give it time, little one. Give it another chance. Come back.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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July 1, 1958
(age 65)
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