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" To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. "
Anne Rice
Making
Risk
Write
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" I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love. "
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" People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. "
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" I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians. "
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" Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. "
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" I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions. "
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Looking
Asking Questions
" To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. "
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Door
" My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white. "
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Own
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House
" I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book. "
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Curiosity
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" You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well. "
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" We're frightened of what makes us different. "
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" We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job. "
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People
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