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“Art was a way of storing our brains in each other’s.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“They’re put into a cell. Maybe they have a window, maybe they don’t. Travel is the three steps from one wall to the other. They may live in that cell for years, depending on the crime, depending on whether they’ve been forgotten or not. They may die in that cell. The point is, punishment is the inability to move, the inability to see the world around you. It’s a universal penalty. What you have is the opposite. You’ve seen so much of the world it must be a reward. For what, I don’t know.”
― Douglas Westerbeke, A Short Walk Through a Wide World

“How did we find this view without a map?” “You’re just walking?” “There is a beauty to this, you know.” “To starvation? To hypothermia?” “To wandering aimlessly.”
― Douglas Westerbeke, A Short Walk Through a Wide World

“Everyone all over the earth prays to God for victory over one another, no matter what side they’re on,” says one tired soldier to another. “I’m sure at some point God just shrugs and says to hell with them all.”
― Douglas Westerbeke, A Short Walk Through a Wide World