Michelle Huneven famous quotes
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To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.
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Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.
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Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.
-- Michelle Huneven -
Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.
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I didn't want to feel such love for someone else. I still wanted to be the object of that tidal wave.
-- Michelle Huneven
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Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.
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I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.
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I don't actually think “true love†is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'
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The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.
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The only place you're sure to find love is at the end of a letter from your mother.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.
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You don't have to lower your morals to find love because, if you do, it's not love that you're finding.
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