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I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.
Jan Karon
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Jan Karon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
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Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
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Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.
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In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)
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Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.
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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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So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.
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As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!
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Love is an endless act of forgiveness.
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My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
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My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
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My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
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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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Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
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I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough
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...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.
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The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.
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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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So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?
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Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.
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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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