"I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table."

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Source : Amy Hempel (2006). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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“We are to Plunder Hell to Populate Heaven for Calvary's sake”
“Happy people look young. Youâ€™re really afraid of getting older, arenâ€™t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.”
“To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.”
“Play exists for its own sake. Play is for the moment; it is not hurried, even when the pace is fast and timing seems important. When we play, we also celebrate holy uselessness. Like the calf frolicking in the meadow, we need no pretense or excuses. Work is productive; play, in its disinterestedness and self-forgetting, can be fruitful.”
“Prayer is the best answer to all of the trials that face us, because without prayer, even if we succeed in accomplishing some great goal in the eyes of men, we have failed in our sacred responsibilities, and thus we have failed in what is truly important.”
“If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
“No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.”
“Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.”

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