The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.
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Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.Jane Rule
Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
Jane Rule
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
Jane Rule
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
Jane Rule
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
Jane Rule
I'm a non-believer. I don't believe in the existence of a God. I don't believe in the Christian dogma. I find it horrifyingly silly. The intolerance that flows from organized religion is the most dangerous thing on the planet.
Jane Rule
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