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Yesteryear

by Caro Claire Burke

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I Who Have Never Known Men

by Jacqueline Harpman

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“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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“You can labor to be noticed in hopes to be prospered. Or, you can prosper somebody and they will labor to get you noticed and help you prosper.”
― Ryan Neely

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“Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

tags: good, poor, suffering

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“In fact, I think the cleverest people must be pessimistic, depressed, because they are realistic, and they see how the world really is.”
― Emma Woolf

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“Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out”
― Joseph Heller, CliffsNotes on Heller's Catch-22

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