Jane Hamilton
Jane Hamilton
Jane Hamiltonis an American novelist...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 July 1957
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It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.
fighting challenges tasks
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.
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The main thing the Phoenix does is have an open-door afternoon program for teens to come and play music and do homework and skate and socialize, a place to be off the streets.
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The easiest thing was a Web site. It just seemed the natural thing to do.
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The big buzz at the Phoenix is about the possible radio station.
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After about one hour of rain, the drainage ditch in the front of the house is so full it is halfway up the front yard. The backyard looks like a lake. We are on septic and every time it rains, you cannot use the bathroom facilities, and the smell of septic is very strong.
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It's an incredible opportunity for the community and an incredible opportunity for young people. There are a lot of things to learn while implementing a radio station.
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It was a gift. They're really community heroes. And they're all musicians and have a love of music and understand what the Phoenix nurtures.
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...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.
ingredients feels persons
I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.
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She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
memories believe past
From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.
hurt thinking two
I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. I hadn't learned that it can happen so gradually you don't lose your stomach or hurt yourself in the landing. You don't necessarily sense the motion. I've found it takes at least two and generally three things to alter the course of a life: You slip around the truth once, and then again, and one more time, and there you are, feeling, for a moment, that it was sudden, your arrival at the bottom of the heap.
people needs wronged
We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.