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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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Jan Karon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Lenoir
North Carolina
Common
Book
Writing
Love
Life
Absolutely
Loved

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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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My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
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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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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.
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Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.
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Are you reading your Bible? Ah, well...I was. And then you quit. You got it. Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.
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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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I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
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I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough
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Love is an endless act of forgiveness.
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I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!
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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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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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