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suppose, when your parents fail you, you either go to pieces or you become the grown-up you require.
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“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.”
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“Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.”
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“When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.”
― Counting by 7s
― Counting by 7s
“It's strange how teachers can go off to college for all those years to learn to become teachers, but some of them never learn the easy stuff. Like making kids laugh. And making sure they know that you love them.”
― Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
― Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Fonville Winans, Photographer
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For fans of the photographer Fonville Winans. Winans famously photographed Louisiana's Depression-era Cajuns, and in doing so documented a hardscrabbl ...more
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