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History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Heart
Repeats
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Events
Pain
History
Facts
Another
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I'll write this all down for you, I said. I'll put it in a story. I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
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Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.
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Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
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Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.
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Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
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