"Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think."

-- Elizabeth Berg

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“Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart.”
“It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1988). “A White Bird Flying”, p.139, U of Nebraska Press
“The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.”
“Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.”
“Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.”
“If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.”
“There is no frigate like a book”
“What people value in their booksâ€”and thus what they count as literatureâ€”really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”

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