Jan Karon
Quotes by Jan Karon
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Why can't life always be lived under the stars,' she said, 'with great music and family and friends?
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While most people took family for granted, he [Father Tim] took it for grace.
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That was his favorite thing about books— they took you off to other people's lives an' places, but you could still set in your own chair by th'oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.
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... for fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.
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In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
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It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.
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As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!
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It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.
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As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!
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While most people took family for granted, he [Father Tim] took it for grace.
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... for fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.
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That was his favorite thing about books— they took you off to other people's lives an' places, but you could still set in your own chair by th'oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.
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In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Why can't life always be lived under the stars,' she said, 'with great music and family and friends?
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There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.
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My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
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There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
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Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.
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When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.
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I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.
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