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“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”
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“I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.”
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.”
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
― The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“For to Ade,...the holy man was the whole mad, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.”
― The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist ― A Memoir about the Worker Movement and Spiritual Conversion
― The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist ― A Memoir about the Worker Movement and Spiritual Conversion
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