Mark Salzman Quotes

• Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).

  Mark Salzman

  Compassion, Our World, Justice

  Mark Salzman (2007). “True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall”, p.155, Vintage

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• If you do all that work of figuring out exactly how writing is done, then it's available to you at anytime, and you can build on it. It's like the difference between shooting one hoop and having it go in by accident and saying later, 'I shot a basket,' - and practicing so much you can do it whenever you want.

  Mark Salzman

  Writing, Differences, Done

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• What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles

  Mark Salzman

  Struggle, People, What If

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• Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.

  Mark Salzman

  Momentos, Finales

  Mark Salzman (2003). “Lying Awake: A Novel”, p.3, Vintage

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• If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.

  Mark Salzman

  Paradise, Hell, Deny

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• Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?

  Mark Salzman

  Eye, Differences, Darkness

  Mark Salzman (2003). “Lying Awake: A Novel”, p.153, Vintage

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• La enfermera señaló que los gemelos idénticos ya eran clones en cierto sentido, y la Madre Emmanuel sugirió que el alma de la que había que preocuparse pertenecía a la persona que se haría clonar a sí misma a un gran coste cuando tantos niños no deseados pasaban hambre.

  Mark Salzman

  Mother, Children, Nurse

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• When one heart moves the whole web trembles.

  Mark Salzman

  Moving, Heart, Whole

  Mark Salzman (2003). “Lying Awake: A Novel”, p.50, Vintage

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