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Jan Karon

"I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away, fascinated by my own busyness. I want to turn all this over to You slowly, carefully, examining every fragment as I pass it off, so there'll never be any question about it again. Every time I've dumped and run, I've nearly always run back and snatched it out of Your hands. Help me in this.......Right now, I'm certain of only one thing - that You love us, and that's where we all have to begin."

-- Jan Karon

#Running Quotes #Hands Quotes #Grace Quotes

“A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.”

Source : "Anglo‐Irish Vision" by avis Gallant, www.nytimes.com. January 15, 1978.
“The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.”

Source : Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The world I grew up in had both a literal and mythological quality. We were on the borders of several worlds - the larger black world bordered us on one side. More distantly, there was the larger white world. We interacted with some, but not others. If you think of it as an internal geography, it is a land, a contested space with these very charged historical, cultural, and emotional borders.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.”
“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.”

Source : "Not everyone enthusiastic about the future of TV". Bangor Daily News, February 18, 1993.
“I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.”
“I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.”
“I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people ... I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from [the Native Americans] ... Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

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