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Prayer is where the action is.

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I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.

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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.

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Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

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In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

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To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.

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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

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