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Reinaldo Arenas
“Being a fugitive living in the woods at the time, I had to write before it got dark. Now darkness was approaching again, only more insidiously.”
Reinaldo Arenas

John      Piper
“Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.”
John Piper, A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

Ismat Chughtai
“How as a young girl, Ismat Chugtai convinced her father to excuse her from learning how to cook, and give her instead the opportunity to go to school and get an education:

“Women cook food Ismat. When you go to your in-laws what will you feed them?” he asked gently after the crisis was explained to him.

“If my husband is poor, then we will make khichdi and eat it and if he is rich, we will hire a cook,” I answered.

My father realised his daughter was a terror and that there wasn’t a thing he could do about it.”
Ismat Chughtai
tags: humor

Oriana Fallaci
“Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.”
Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

Derek Mahon
“Everything Is Going to Be All Right

How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.
The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.”
Derek Mahon, Collected Poems

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