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What else exhausts like sustained deception?

And who doesn't long for the door in the air.

Once torched by truth, Swede wrote years later, a little thing like faith is easy.

Sometimes it seems every woman I meet is more than a match for me.

Fair is whatever God wants to do.

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.

You said yourself they didn't hurt your girl."
Waiting, Davy asked, "How many times does a dog have to bite before you put him down?

Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust?

Once torched by truth, a little thing like faith is easy.

If you can't talk sense, don't talk at all.

He stood and nodded at the great whitening sky. We're sure small, wouldn't you say? Takes the onus off, somehow.

I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.

I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

Her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others.

For his life seemed a curving line, capricious, moment by moment inviting grace.

In times of dread it's good to have an old man along. An old man has seen worse.

We and the world, my children, will always be at war.
Retreat is impossible.
Arm yourselves.

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

Is it hubris to believe we all live epics?

was working the cold up

Routine is worry's sly assassin.

Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.

Not confidence - I understand confidence. What he had was knowledge.

Make of that what you will.

Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.

I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

When I woke in the dark I was smiling - it's a happy thing to brace for a visit from old friend Envy who then for some reason never shows up.

A line only gets grace when it curves, you know.

A cowboy doesn't ask for much, that's my observation. A flashy ride, a pretty girl, momentary glory ...

Why is it our failures only show us more clearly the people we are failing?

So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.

Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do.

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.