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A novel takes the courage of a marathon runner, and as long as you have to run, you might as well be a winning marathon runner. Serendipity and blind ...more

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Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out an...more

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In God's scheme what is a few billion years here and there. Perhaps there have come and gone a dozen human civilizations in the past billion years tha...more

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For an instant he was able to cross the line and understand this strange loyalty of Jew to Jew. Those Jews who lived free in England were only there d...more

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Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will ...more

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This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are ...more

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Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish peo...more

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Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old pove...more