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Category: Michael R. French

Michael R. French

In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.

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Michael R. French

The liberation from ignorance and tyranny was a long war, because the oppressors always had the advantage. They smooth-talked the masses with lies and promises.

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Michael R. French

Racism is not simply about one man’s irrational hatred of another but his self-hatred, doubting his own moral goodness and purpose.

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Michael R. French

We must believe we are capable of transcending evil, of not needing to hide in the darkness or surrender to our basest fears.

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Michael R. French

Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.

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Michael R. French

Falling in love is different for everyone.

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Michael R. French

Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net.

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Michael R. French

When you’re in love, there’s nothing that can embarrass or surprise you.

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Michael R. French

In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don’t understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.

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Michael R. French

What’s real and what’s not? People we meet in books–Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo– can become more memorable, and more important to us than people with birth certificates and drivers’ licenses. Characters spawned in an author’s imagination find a home inside us. They make our lives richer. They become our best friends. They never disappoint. And they never die.

Michael R. French

Falling in love is more than infatuation. It is the need to feel whole, to feel safe, to be healed, to join together with someone, heart and soul.

Michael R. French

We are not strangers. It’s a lack of trust that keeps us separated.

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