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We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voice...

Neil Gaiman

The beauty in correcting our own mistakes; rather than attempting to correct the mistakes in others, is that working upon our own flaws improves us. But working upon the flaws of others not only leaves us unimproved; it actually leaves us being less ...

C. JoyBell C.

There is no ongoing spiritual life without this process of letting go. At the precise point where we refuse, growth stops. If we hold tightly to anything given to us, unwilling to let it go when the time comes to let it go or unwilling to allow it to...

Elisabeth Elliot

Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness i...

Warrior of the Light

It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't th...

Jingo

You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to make a point which is that a used book, unlike a used car, hasn't lost any of its initial value. A good story rolls of the lot into the hands o...

What is Stephen Harper Reading?: Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister and Book Lovers of All Stripes

Harlan Pepper: I used to be able to name every nut that there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, "Harlan Pepper, if you don't stop naming nuts," and the joke was that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that's what put ...

Best in Show

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

Change of Heart

News flash, Bozo. Don't ever tell a girl to relax. It only makes us madder.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!

Crime and Punishment

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Epic Fail

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

Flaubert's Parrot

We could adopt. there are lots of kids out there who could grow up to hate us as much as any kid we could make

Game Plan

He does miracles when we need them—not for our entertainment or to make us feel “spiritual.

Gift & Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today

Who you vote for is your right...Just make sure you use that right :)

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

A brick could be used to aid the lonely. Carry it with you, converse with it, and if you drink enough, you can even make love to it.


Brick and Blanket

A blanket could be used to stop gun violence. Make sleep, not war.


Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

Born in Fire

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

Busman's Honeymoon

I make love like a brick could be used as toilet paper. Sure, it’s rough, but I thought you liked that shit.


Blanket

Got enough leg room there, Rossiter?" Marc asked. "You bet. If not I'll just make use of the overhead bin.

Breaking Point