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“But unlike Vegas, what happens in a poet's cave never stays in a poet's cave... We tend to release the bats”

Book:Confessions of a D3AD Petal

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“Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder would spend his valuable time reading, that he might be impressed by the description of a crooked face, was something I did not question, as I believed, and still do, that stories save you.”

Writing Stories Reading Writers On Writing Alice Munro

Author:Jincy Willett

“The thing about life, Harry had told Lauren, was to live in the world with interest. To keep your eyes open and see the possibilities - see the humanity - in everybody you met. To be aware. If he had anything at all to teach her it was that. Be aware.”

Life Runaway Alice Munro Trespasses

Book:Runaway: Stories

Source: Runaway: Stories

“The last days of May are among the longest of the year, and in spite of the ferry-dock lights and the lights of the cars streaming into the belly of the boat, she could see some glow in the western sky and against it the black mound of an island.”

Short Stories Alice Munro

Book:What is Remembered

Source: What is Remembered

“An op-ed in the Boston Globe, remarking on near-corpses who keep on doing what they've always done, compared me to Mick Jagger. Never before had I been so honored. The columnist mentioned others: Keith Richards, Alice Munro, and William Trevor, who was born the year I was. At seventy, Jagger is a juvenile among us eighty-five-year-olds—but his face as he jumps and gyrates resembles something retrieved from a bog.”

Aging Old Age Celebrities Seniors Senior Citizens Keith Richards Mick Jagger Alice Munro William Trevor

Book:Essays After Eighty

Source: Essays After Eighty

“That was the beauty of it. That, right there, was the grift itself: that moment of hope, that quickening of pulse, the what if, what if it’s me, what if it’s my ticket, what would I do with all that money, who would I become?”

Hope Lottery

Book:Lucky

Source: Lucky

“When one gets to Clement or Hippolytus, we are clearly a long way from what we find in Paul and the Gospels, where the influence of the Passover is still strongly present and the meal is seen as a family meal, taken in the home, a memorial meal to remember Jesus’ death until his return...Here then is a cautionary reminder — the less Jewish the approach one takes to the Lord’s Supper, the more likely one is to be wrong about one’s assessment of what is the case about the elements.”

Communion Eucharist Paul Clement Gospels Lord S Supper Passover Hippolytus

Book:Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper

Source: Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper

“To truly discover your full potentials, you will have to take on tasks you never thought you could do. You will be amazed to find that what you thought was your norm was just an average of your true potentials. Greatness starts when you decide to go beyond your norm.”

Greatness Hard Work Challenge Potentials Clement

Author:Clement Ogedegbe

“You only live when you maximize your potentials, you only live when you fulfil your purpose and you only live when you achieve greatness. Anything short of that is simply a wasted life, an unproductive life, and a dead life.”

Greatness Fulfilling Purpose Wasted Life Clement Maximize Potentials

Author:Clement Ogedegbe

“One secret to living a great and successful life is to learn to develop and improve your potentials. Keep working on them, keep exercising and putting them to use. They get better and better the more you cultivate them.”

Success Greatness Secrets Hardwork Clement

Author:Clement Ogedegbe

“It is potentials plus hard work that leads to greatness. It is my belief that most people irrespective of race or nationality will surprise themselves if they work hard and believe in their potentials.”

Success Race Greatness Hard Work Potentials Clement Ogedegbe

Author:Clement Ogedegbe

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