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In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

Life is so short," I said sighing, "the past so long. Shouldn't we turn the page and move on?"
"The past is the future," Aunt Emily shot back

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.

From my years of teaching I know it's the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain.

People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.