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From there, the future is a place that looks darker every day.
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This is what I write to her: The clouds tonight embossed the sky.
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A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
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Finally, we were notorious enough to give our enemies pause.
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For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.
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Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been raped.
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They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.
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the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.
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The man who has been wealthy is dunned more civilly than the fellow who has ever been poor.
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Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some
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Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.
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But as I have resolved to set down a full account here, so I must begin with an honest accounting of myself. That morning, I was afraid.
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I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
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I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.
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How easy it was to give out morsels of wise counsel, and yet how hard to act on them.
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A man's thoughts and the ability to express them come from God, and if my words find favor, may it be to his honor.
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How easily Caleb had taken the teachings of his youth - the many gods, the animate spirit world - and simply recast them in terms of our teaching.
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Some half-dozen children running in the fields or about the wetus - fewer
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All the women who actually drove were mature professionals who had international drivers' licenses they'd acquired overseas. Many
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I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.
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Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward's talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to bend.
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How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst.
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Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.
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It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.
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He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.
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His spirit is like a guttering candle
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We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.
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In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives' honor. If
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It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.
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Disappointment is a beautiful woman reading Ayn Rand.
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And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood?
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Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.
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Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce.
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Josip had only an instant to exchange a glance with Serif. He made it the most eloquent glance of his life.
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The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.
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Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And
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As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung trees afire.
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I have lived most of my life in soldiers' camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.
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In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.
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I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.
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This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh.
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If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.
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And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.
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You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall yourselves. - Caleb
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Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.
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There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
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If our forefathers make the world awry, must our children be the ones who pay to right it?
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I've watched them. Watched them walking with this stupid smile on their faces into the biggest risk you can take in this life.
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Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard.
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It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn't nearly as great as I'd assumed.
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But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.
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I felt the reckless abandon of one who knows she stands already among the damned. "Why not, then, another sin?
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I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just don't have happy endings.
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
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He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.
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He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill.
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No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.
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Perhaps the giver of the name had meant to trick Cheepi, the devil-god, into thinking him unloved and therefore leaving him alone.
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David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.
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You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.
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This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
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Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.
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When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.
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The point is the effort
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The surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve.Bethia as an old woman about to die
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Good yield does not come without suffering, it does not come without struggle, and toil, and yes, loss.
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The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.
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The priest Zadok looked stricken. He had hoped to bargain information for a higher price. Now I, as a prophet, had given it to David for free.
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I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me.
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This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so.
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It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.
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They argued that women of the prophet's era had ridden camels, the main mode of transportation of their day. The
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I never promised I would write the truth. I
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the truth from his ears, waxed strong.
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I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
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one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.
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I think the seeds of my love were planted there, in the ground that my father's madness harrowed.
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The greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person.
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He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?
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women now share the economic burden of their families, very few Egyptian men are prepared to share the housework. To
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David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.
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Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only.
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He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation.
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I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.
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The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and ... truckloads of guts, you know.
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So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.
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Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.
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It is the habit of our species to despoil all we touch. Yet few see it so.
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We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.
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One does not have to be a priest to be a man!
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I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.
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Who is the brave manhe who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. — Geraldine Brooks
I cannot say that I have faith anymore. Hope, perhaps. We have agreed that it will do for now.
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A scandal had traditionally been an easy way to dispose of an inconvenient woman.
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