"My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up."

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Source : "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

Caitlin Flanagan

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“Make no apologies for who you are.”
“How to Stay Christian in Seminary should be placed in the hands of every first-year seminarian. It provides a much-needed balance as they navigate the beautiful but treacherous waters of a seminary education. I plan to use this powerful little book with great profit for my students in the years ahead.”
“I like connecting with people through technology.”
“Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.”
“To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by expressing in the world of forms- truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.”
“God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.”
“My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.”
“Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.”

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