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Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished.

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Jan Karon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
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...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.
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Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.
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There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.
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I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
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In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.
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The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.
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I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.
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Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
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I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
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Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
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When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on Him? When you called on Him, was He somewhere up there, or was He as near as your very breath?
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