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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.


Ann Patchett

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ANN VOSKAMP Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness ...
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ANN VOSKAMP Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a t...
ANN VOSKAMP In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect...
ANN VOSKAMP When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
ANN VOSKAMP Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without hav...
ANN LANDERS I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
ANN RICHARDS Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not ...
ANN COTTON And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the tr...
ANN ROMNEY Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with...
ANN RICHARDS 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousan...
ANN LECKIE I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way...
ANN BEATTIE Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a p...
ANN NOCENTI You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.
ANN ROBINSON We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren'...
ANN COULTER