You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.Jessamyn West
Groan and forget it.
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If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a month. The new thing could be inconsequential steak for breakfast, frog hunting, walking on stilts . . . anything not ordinarily done.
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To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.
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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
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Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
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