"Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?"

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Source : Mark Salzman (2003). “Lying Awake: A Novel”, p.153, Vintage

Mark Salzman

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“When you listen to other womenâ€™s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.”
“To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.”
“Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.”
“There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.”

Source : "Gov. Nikki Haley in No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2012.
“A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.”
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.”
“I am confident that when I get really old, the human lifespan will be extended.”
“Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.”

Source : Jay Kesler (1993). “Grandparenting: The Agony and the Ecstasy”, Vine Books

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