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History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.
— Wendell Berry Jayber Crow
Tags: time, love, history, community

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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
— Wendell Berry
Tags: writer, than, more, i-am
This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
— Wendell Berry
Tags: you, prayer, god, good
The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
— Wendell Berry
Tags: anything, always, technology, good
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
— Wendell Berry
Tags: affection, always, care, good
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
— Wendell Berry
Tags: gardening, how, question, enough, time
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