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“I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life”
― Diane di Prima

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”
― Booth Tarkington

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
― Jack London

“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
― Tony Kushner, Perestroika

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
― Charles Eames