White Tears
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—I am afraid, I said. I am so afraid. —What are you afraid of? Of the sound underlying the other sounds, the suffering rising up all around me, the mare’s nest of cable I have to untangle if I am going to find the fault. Of the way the past
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.”
― Cat's Eye
― Cat's Eye
“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?”
― Cat's Eye
― Cat's Eye
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