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“Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.”
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“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
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“I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.”
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“many in [the NDP] are fundamentally more comfortable with opposition than with the difficulties of power… if we ever actually won an election, they would demand a recount”
― From Protest to Power: Personal Reflections on a Life in Politics
― From Protest to Power: Personal Reflections on a Life in Politics
“I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.”
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Matthew’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Matthew’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
16 books
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214 books
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57 books
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0 books
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