People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

A desert is a place without expectation.

A desert is a place without expectation.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid...

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of...

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of...

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed...

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed...