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“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
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“You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.”
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“I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.”
― Joe Turner's Come and Gone
― Joe Turner's Come and Gone
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
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“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
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