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Separation of Church and Hate

by John Fugelsang

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Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say by Kelly Corrigan

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“Accepting things as they are is difficult. A lot of people go to war with reality.”

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“I don’t like to overhear things, because, in my experience, things your parents are keeping quiet about are things you don’t want to know.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
― Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife

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