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“Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.”
― High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
― High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never
“Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.”
― Flight Behavior
― Flight Behavior
“Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto.”
― Flight Behavior
― Flight Behavior
“You can't know somebody, I thought, till you've followed him home.”
― Animal Dreams
― Animal Dreams
“Take your place, then. Look at what happened from every side and consider all the other ways it could have gone. Consider, even, an Africa unconquered altogether. Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle’s edge through their fitted brass lenses. Imagine that by some miracle of dread or reverence they lowered their spyglasses, turned, set their riggings, sailed on. Imagine all who came after doing the same. What would that Africa be now? All I can think of is the other okapi, the one they used to believe in. A unicorn that could look you in the eye.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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