"Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaosâ€¦ to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream."

-- John Cheever

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“The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.”
“Those who plant trees plant hope.”
“Iâ€™m conceited, I got a reason”
“We don't have a lot of Sikhs in France. We've got some. But we don't really hear much from them or about them. Which is good news.”

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“â€ŽI know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance.”
“Don't hang onto anything too tightly-all things must change and you have to allow room for them to grow and blossom.”
“An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.”
“When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.”

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