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“Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?”

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Richard Russo is an American novelist born on July 15, 1949. His works are known for their vivid portrayal of life in the American Midwest, earning him widespread acclaim for their nuanced emotions and profound social insight. more

“...a choice had to be made when your husband said something unkind. Specifically: be cruel, be strong, or sulk. 'Be cruel' by saying an unkind thing back. 'Be strong' by choosing not to mind. But to do this, you have to use up a piece of your love. You have to shave off enough of the love to forgive. After a while, the piece might grow back, but sometimes not. And if you shave off all the soft curves, you'll be left with a sharp-edged love. 'Sulk' by sulking. Sulking is simply delaying the choice to be cruel or strong.”

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Author:Jaclyn Moriarty

“Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Hard Opportunity Forever Successful Dangerous Praise Locks Wrong Things

Book:What Should I Do With My Life?

Source: What Should I Do With My Life?

“Whether of not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”

Should Universe Clear Doubt No Doubt Adoption Unfolding Adopting Life Unfolding

Author:Max Ehrmann

“Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.”

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Book:Flying to America: 45 More Stories

Source: Flying to America: 45 More Stories

“Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought, and where creativity blossoms in its freedom from boundaries and all things are possible.”

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Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.”

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Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.”

World Pay Vision Caring Leslie

Book:Bridge to Terabithia

Source: Bridge to Terabithia

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