"I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves."

-- Louis L'Amour

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“Grace is goodness and respect given freely and unconditionally. A sense of divine love and protection bestowed on us when we need strength and renewal. Grace helps us know we are not alone and believe we are cared for and cherished. Grace is a drink of clear, clean water in the desert.”
“One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.”
“[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.”
“Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.”
“An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.”
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”
“When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.”
“On gay adoption I have changed my mind.”

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