"Is sobriety all that we are to expect of a spiritual awakening? No, sobriety is only a bare beginning; it is only the first gift of the first awakening. If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life - the one that did not work - for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever."

-- Bill W.

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“There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.”
“As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.”
“I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.”
“What makes LSU is the environment and the fans and those guys wearing the jerseys. They're really good players.”
“The response of the men who were introduced into polygamy between 1841 and 1846 was anything but enthusiastic. The same was true of the women who were offered the chance of becoming plural wives. Apart from the fact that the new system collided with moral assumptions they had grown up with, there were practical difficulties that made polygamy less attractive. For the men to support additional wives was seldom easy.”

Source : Leonard J. Arrington, Davis Bitton (1992). “The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints”, p.197, University of Illinois Press
“For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.”
“I have a lot of respect for marriage.”
“If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.”

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