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Lennie
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“Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.”
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
“It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and to find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder.”
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“Everyone should be acknowledged. Everyone should be missed when they are not right there with you because of what they carry, this very distinct way they have of bearing themselves that is like no one else and that is built by everything they have done and everything they have seen.”
― In Ascension
― In Ascension
“You’re flawed, and the world you see corresponds to these flaws. Weaknesses define you, drive new and original strategies to cover them, and they make you who you are. You don’t exist without them.”
― In Ascension
― In Ascension
“Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol.
Her response was, “If it’s only a symbol, to hell with it.”
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Her response was, “If it’s only a symbol, to hell with it.”
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Lennie’s 2025 Year in Books
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