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Jayber Crow (2000)
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Most people didn't dream, then, that before long a lot of little farmers would buy and borrow their way out of farming, and bigger and bigger farmers would be competing with their neighbors (or with doctors from the city) for the available land. The time was going to come — it is clear enough now — when there would not be enough farmers left.
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Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
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To mind being disliked by a woman you don't desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
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Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Wendell Berry
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August 5, 1934
(age 89)
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