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Boredom Is The Conviction That You Can't Change ... The Shriek Of Unused Capacities.

But Privately When Things Got Very Bad I Often Looked Into Books To See Whether I Could Find Some Helpful Words, And One Day I Read, "the Forgiveness Of Sins Is Perpetual And Righteousness First Is Not Required." This Impressed Me So Deeply That I Went Around Saying It To Myself. But Then I Forgot Which Book It Was.

Losing A Parent Is Something Like Driving Through A Plate-glass Window. You Didn't Know It Was There Until It Shattered, And Then For Years To Come You're Picking Up The Pieces -- Down To The Last Glassy Splinter.

I Would Like To Explain That I Consider Prayer Above All An Act Of Gratitude For Existence.

How Could I Be Anything But A Dissenter? Who Wants The Opinion Of A Group?