"I reach readers rather unintentionally, I think, and those readers likely connect with the slant, the off-kilter, the part of the road you can barely see from the well-traveled road. So, when I'm writing, I'm not thinking about audience at all. Instead, I'm trying to see behind those shrubs, down that hidden path. We're the weirdos of the world and there are so many weirdos."

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Dawn Lundy Martin

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.”
“Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.”
“It`s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.”
“What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?”
“What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.”
“The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.”
“What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction”
“Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.”

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