“When everybody thinks you are nuts you finally just give in to their pressure and actually go nuts.”

—  Donald Miller, book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

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American writer 1971

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