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  1. Annie Dillard _ Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

    I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I open my eyes. Looking, I see there are worms in the horns of the altar like live maggots in amber, there are shells of worms in the rock and moths flapping at my eyes. A wind from no place rises. A sense of the real exults me; the cords loosen: I walk on my way.
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  2. Annie Dillard _ Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

    I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
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  3. Nancy Milford _ Savage Beauty: The Life of

    If I can write just one poem that will turn the minds of a few to a more decent outlook...what does it matter if I compose a bad line or lose my reputation as a craftsman?...I used to think it very important to write only good poetry. Over and over I worked it to make it as flawless as I could. What does it matter now, when men are dying for their hopes and their ideals? If I live or die as a poet it won't matter, but anyone who believes in democracy and freedom and love and culture and peace ought to be busy now. He cannot wait for the tomorrow.
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  4. Ryan Holiday _ Ego Is the Enemy

    When our cause is young, we feel so intensely that it seems wrong to take it slow. This is our inability to see that burning ourselves out isn't going to hurry the journey along. The critical work that you want to do will require your deliberation and consideration. Not passion. Not naïveté. It'd be far better if you were intimidated by what lies ahead - humbled by its magnitude and determined to see it through. Leave passion for the amateurs. Make it about what you feel you *must* do or say, not what you care about and wish to be. Then you will do great things. Then you will stop being your old, good-intentioned, but ineffective self.
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  5. Samuel Beckett _ Waiting for Godot

    To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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  6. Charles R. Swindoll _ Moses: A Man of Selfless

    You and I can become so dedicated to the will of God, we can be so driven by a false sense of purpose, that we might inadvertently take matters into our own hands and leave God completely out of the loop.
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  7. Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove

    His purpose was to get done what needed to be done, and what needed to be done was simple, if not easy.
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  8. Haruki Murakami _ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

    From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.
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  9. Patience Johnson _ Why Does an Orderly God Allow

    Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain.
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  10. D.H. Lawrence _ Studies in Classic American

    Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.
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  11. Elisabeth Elliot _ Passion and Purity: Learning

    When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always {including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable}.
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  12. Rick Riordan _ The Blood of Olympus

    A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.
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