"The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it."

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Source : Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial

Nancy Mairs

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“My first album deals with my anxiety. It wasn't like, to heal my anxiety and by writing an album I'm now healed. It was, here's a sound representation of what it feels like to be in an anxiety attack and that's it. I think we can say the same with image, people look at an image and see a billion different things.”
“The secret of the gospel is that we actually do more when we hear less about all we need to do for God and hear more about all that God has already done for us.”
“[Calvin Trillin] was very "shoe," which means he was a big jock, a big deal.”

Source : Source: fourtwonine.com
“Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.”
“Each album comes from definitely a different period in the evolution of each of us individually as creators and the role that we take in life. The external stimuli changed... so the songs are full of lots of different meanings.”
“We all have our flaws. But we overcome them. And sometimes, it's our flaws that make us who we are.”
“Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope To find some solace for your wild unrest.”

Source : James Thomson (2011). “The City of Dreadful Night”, p.51, The Floating Press
“The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.”

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