When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother. - Andrew Sean Greer

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The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.

Andrew Sean Greer

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

Energy, Falters, Firsts, Mother, Woman

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We are each the love of someone's life.

Life, Love

It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.

Eye, Heart, Mind, Real, Realm, Stars

Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as no one has done before. Scott and Zelda become, in Spargo's remarkable novel, not people of history but of literature, and reminders of what we fight for, what we fail to win, and the beauty that abides between. A marvel of a book.

Become, Book, Fight, Fighting, Winning, Zelda

For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't written very much of it. That's the dirty secret of the Cullman center: The writers don't write their fiction there, they just do their research.

Dirty, Genealogical, Historical, Novel, Writers, Writing

Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility has made you imagine them too many times in your head, and when you find yourself on that longed-for moonlit path, it seems unreal but still, somehow, familiar. You dreamed of it, of course; you know it like a memory.

Finding Yourself, Memories, Moonlit, Path, Times

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All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.

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Lee Strobel

I’ve seen far too many Christians who are more than willing to travel halfway around the world to volunteer for a week in an orphanage, but who cannot bring themselves to take the personal risk of sharing Jesus with the co-worker who sits day after day in the cubicle right next to them.

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Matt Bomer

When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding.

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