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“You can start your day over anytime.”

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Dani Shapiro is an acclaimed American author born on April 10, 1962. She is known for her works in the genres of fiction, essays, and memoirs, which are characterized by their profound emotional depth and delicate prose. more

“The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.”

Way Years Humans Heart Littles Art Moving Prayer Perspective Safe Distance Warm Envy Scripture Pity Tides Expansion Human Heart Fascination Contractions Revulsion

Author:Jennifer Haigh

“That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?”

Men Want Humans Made Ends Mother Asks Left Sound Church Too Much Sacrifice Holy Healthy Instinct Good Man Unhealthy Pragmatic Closeness Renunciation

Author:Jennifer Haigh

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.”

Source: At Home in the World: A Memoir

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