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Chuck Leitch

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“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: action, improve, life, lives, power, rule, ruling-government

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“Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.”
― Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir

tags: feelings, hurt, love

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“There is no Higher Power or any God who is responsible for what I do and for what I have done and for who I am. There is no Higher Power or any God who will cure me. There is no Meeting where any amount of whining, complaining and blaming is going to make me feel any better.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

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“He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.”
― J.D. Salinger, For Esmé — with Love and Squalor and Other Stories

tags: for-esmé-with-love-and-squalo

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“Jonas wasn’t interested, just then, in wisdom. It was the colors that fascinated him. “Why can’t everyone see them? Why did colors disappear?” The Giver shrugged. “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.” He thought for a moment. “We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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