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Quote by Frederick Buechner

“It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.”

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Frederick Buechner, born on July 11, 1926, is a renowned American writer. His works span across various genres including novels, essays, and plays, known for their profound religious and philosophical reflections. more

“I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.”

Want Soul Pain Fall Morning Heard Sky Strange Sweet Eternal Blue Chaos Clouds Yellow Ancestor Gentleness Fall Back Blue Sky Funny Good Morning Morning Sky

Author:Shannon Hale

“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.”

Race Circumstances Civilization Truth Is Weapons Spread Wide Catastrophe Teaching Learning

Author:H. G. Wells

“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.”

World Running Earth Joy Night Nature Break Flower Wave Rhythm Dust Grass Streams Veins Blades Blades Of Grass Leaves And Flowers

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”

Simple Terrible Ordinary

Book:The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Easyread Edition

Source: The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Easyread Edition

“On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.”

Giving Give Me Ice Cream Ice Cream Lucifer

Author:Tori Amos

“Everyone wears a sign that says "Make me feel important”

Feels Important

Author:Mary Kay Ash

“'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.”

Thinking Should Said Play Directors Ears Heavy Managers Casting Casting Directors

Author:Albert Brooks

“Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.”

Crime Guilty I Love Him Vampirism

Author:William S. Burroughs

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