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Yesteryear

by Caro Claire Burke

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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: trust, truth

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“If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

tags: advice, confidence, inspirational, motivational, prayer

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“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: fair, life

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“It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.”
― Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

tags: death, life

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“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking

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