"real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another."

-- Agnes Repplier

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“Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.”
“I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.”
“Even in its darkness, it has this picturesque element. It's something about the human condition. It's not the water itself-it's humanity's relationship to water, because that’s almost a human need, that water be a positive force.”
“Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.”
“Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.”
“People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.26, Vintage
“Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an awareness that our lives are not to be lived simply for ourselves through expressing our individuality, but we confirm the purpose of our lives through the work of expressing our shared sense of community in a purposeful and practical way; to sustain our own lives we sustain the lives of others - in family, in a community of neighborhoods called a city, and in a community of nations called the world.”
“As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.”

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