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Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
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You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home
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From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.
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There is nothing perfect...only life.
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Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
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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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