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I have always been an unrelaxed sort of reader; I find it almost impossible to read nonfiction, not because of any lack of enjoyment on my part but rather because my own insistence on keeping notes as though I am about to be subjected to an
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“In a State, even a democracy, where power is hierarchic, how can you prevent the storage of information from becoming yet another source of power to the powerful—another piston in the great machine?”
― Always Coming Home
― Always Coming Home
“They had no god; they had no gods; they had no faith. What they appear to have had is a working metaphor.”
― Always Coming Home
― Always Coming Home
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.”
― Tar Baby
― Tar Baby
“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”
― Breath, Eyes, Memory
― Breath, Eyes, Memory
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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