New freedoms surface old habits. I haven't left sin behind, only discovered a new medium for my treachery. My real trouble as a writer isn't trying to mean the words that I write. It's living into the words that I mean. Nonfiction writing can feel like the high art of hypocrisy. Jen Pollock Michel
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  2. I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. - Thomas Keller
  3. All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions - Leonardo Da Vinci
  4. What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. - Deepak Chopra
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More Quotes By Jen Pollock Michel
  1. Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.
  2. New freedoms surface old habits. I haven't left sin behind, only discovered a new medium for my treachery. My real trouble as a writer isn't trying to mean the words that I write. It's living into the words that I mean. Nonfiction writing can feel...
  3. Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.
  4. The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.
  5. Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.
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