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Ursula’s Quotes

“An Eskimo shaman said, "Life’s greatest danger lies in the fact that man’s food consists entirely of souls".”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

tags: page-242

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“Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing.
If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

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“I don’t want money. What the hell’s money good for? You can’t drive it and you can’t eat it and it won’t even fix a flat.”
― Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon

tags: money

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“And this then, that I am feeling now, is the hell that comes with love, the hell and the damnation and the agony beyond all enduring, because after the beauty and the loveliness comes the sorrow and the pain.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

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“I want all the books on the shelves.

I want the books with dinosaur words like nigger that show the skeletons in our national closet. I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike. Words don't scare me. Suppressing them does.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, Talk, Talk : A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups

tags: books, censorship, language, literature, misogyny, racism, redaction, suppression

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