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“The trouble with good fortune is that we tend to equate it with personal goodness, so that if things are going well for us and less well for others, it’s assumed they must have done something to have brought that misfortune on themselves while we must have worked harder to avoid it. We speak of ourselves as being blessed, but what can that mean except that others are not blessed, and that God has picked out a few of us to love more? It is our responsibility to care for one another, to create fairness in the face of unfairness and find equality where none may have existed in the past.”
― These Precious Days: Essays
― These Precious Days: Essays
“In retrospect, my inability to put it together was its own sort of gift. I would understand what they were doing soon enough, at which point I would finally understand what I had done to Veronica. Veronica had such a small part in the story and still I loved her more than everyone at Tom Lake put together. She stayed with me after the rest of them had faded, maybe because we remember the people we hurt so much more clearly than the people who hurt us.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.”
― State of Wonder
― State of Wonder
“The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.”
― Bel Canto
― Bel Canto
“The three stages of life: youth, middle age, and ‘You’re looking good, Mr. Keating.”
― Commonwealth
― Commonwealth
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