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In The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative, Vivian Gornick writes: “The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the
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“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.”
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Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.”
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“Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that’s already yours.”
― An American Marriage
― An American Marriage
“In her Georgia misery she had pictured freedom, and it had not looked like this. Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare. Mingo”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“In Garfield’s experience, education was salvation. It had freed him from grinding poverty. It had shaped his mind, forged paths, created opportunities where once there had been none. Education, he knew, led to progress, and progress was his country’s only hope of escaping its own painful past. In”
― Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
― Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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