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  1. Claire Messud _ The Emperor's Children

    I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.
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  2. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Circle of Quiet

    The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.
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  3. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...
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  4. Geoffrey Chaucer _ Canterbury Tales

    earn what you can since everything's for sale
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  5. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    Often we want to be somewhere other than where we are, to even to be someone other than who we are. We tend to compare ourselves constantly with others and wonder why we are not as rich, as intelligent, as simple, as generous, or as saintly as they are. Such comparisons make us feel guilty, ashamed, or jealous. It is very important to realize that our vocation is hidden in where we are and who we are. We are unique human beings, each with a call to realize in life what nobody else can, and to realize it in the concrete context of the here and now.We will never find our vocations by trying to figure out whether we are better or worse than others. We are good enough to do what we are called to do. Be yourself!
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  6. Philip Zaleski _ The Fellowship: The Literary

    Passion does not translate easily into good income.
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  7. Robert A. Caro _ The Path to Power

    The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.
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  8. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.
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  9. Geraldine Brooks _ Year of Wonders

    I bent my head and breathed the fresh new scent of her. I looked into her deep blue eyes and saw reflected there the dawn of my own new life. This little girl seemed to me, at that moment, answer enough to all my questions. To have saved this small, singular one-this alone seemed reason enough that I lived. I knew then that this was how I was meant to go on: away from death and toward life, from birth to birth, from seed to blossom, living my life amongst wonders.
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  10. John Barth _ The Sot-Weed Factor

    Ah, God, it were an easy Matter to choose a Calling hadone all Time to live in! I should be fifty Years aBarrister, fifty a Physician, fifty a Clergyman, fifty aSoldier! Aye, and fifty a Thief, and fifty a Judge! AllRoads are fine Roads, beloved Sister, none more thananother, so that with one Life to spend I am a Manbare-bumm'd at Taylors with Cash for but one pair ofBreeches, or a Scholar at Brookstalls with Money for asingle Book: to choose ten were no Trouble; to choose one,impossible! All Trades, all Crafts, all Professions arewondrous, but none is finer than the rest together. Icannot choose, sweet Anna: twixt Stools my Breech fallethto the Ground!
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  11. Annie Dillard _ An American Childhood

    He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned, became architects; I had thought they became painters. My friend explained that it was not proper to become a painter; it couldn't be done. I resigned myself to architecture school and a long life of drawing buildings. It was a pity, for I disliked buildings, considering them only a stiffer and more ample form of clothing, and no more important.
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  12. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.
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