"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."
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"'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say."
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"Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love."
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"Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself."
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"If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
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"We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them."
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"I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read."
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"Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God."
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"I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism."
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"What I've seen from keeping in touch as well as I can is that what I find so typical in Mexican culture is the helpfulness of the people to each other. I think, at this point, that is the highest good and the highest we can hope for - which is to be of help and use to each other wherever we are."
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"I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power."
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"I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed."
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"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen."
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"Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart."
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"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools."
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"You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen."
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"I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have."
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"Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?"
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"I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers."
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"I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left."
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