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“My great happiness is the sound your voice makes calling to me even in despair; my sorrow that I cannot answer you in speech you accept as mine. You have no faith in your own language. So you invest authority in signs you cannot read with any accuracy. And yet your voice reaches me always. And I answer constantly,”
― The Wild Iris: Winner of the Nobel Prize
― The Wild Iris: Winner of the Nobel Prize
“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.”
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“In every life, there’s a moment or two. In every life, a room somewhere, by the sea or in the mountains. On the table, a dish of apricots. Pits in a white ashtray.”
― The Wild Iris: Winner of the Nobel Prize
― The Wild Iris: Winner of the Nobel Prize
“I live essentially in darkness. You are perhaps training me to be responsive to the slightest brightening. Or, like the poets, are you stimulated by despair, does grief move you to reveal your nature? This afternoon,”
― The Wild Iris: Winner of the Nobel Prize
― The Wild Iris: Winner of the Nobel Prize
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