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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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New York City
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Carl Frederick Buechner
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Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies, be reminded in private of your own. In that way, at least, we can hold a kind of converse.
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
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I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.
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