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Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.
Louise Penny
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Louise Penny
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 1
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Journalist
Novelist
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City of Toronto
Love
Courage
Peace
Everything
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I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.
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Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.
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Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable, said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, Emerson. Lake and Palmer? Ralph and Waldo.
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Things are strongest where they're broken.
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Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.
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Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner
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I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.
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Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.
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The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help
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I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.
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Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.
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Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.
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How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.
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When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.
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A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.
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Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.
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What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.
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I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.
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Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.
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To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.
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