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Jean Rhys
“When man don't love you, more you try, more he hate you, man like that. If you love them they treat you bad, if you don't love them they after you night and day bothering your soul case out. I hear about you and your husband,' she said.
'But I cannot go. He is my husband after all.'
She spat over her shoulder. 'All women, all colours, nothing but fools. Three children I have. One living in this world, each one a different father, but no husband, I thank my God. I keep my money. I don't give it to no worthless man.'
'When must I go, where must I go?'
'But look me trouble, a rich white girl like you and more foolish than the rest. A man don't treat you good, pick up your skirt and walk out. Do it and he come after you.”
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Niall Williams
“I write this now, having spent a lifetime trying to be, by which i mean the best version, a thing dreamed by those stricken with imagination. Not that you ever quite know what that is, still there he is, that better man, who remains always just ahead of you. I write this now, having come to realise it's a lifelong pursuit, that once begun will not end this side of the graveyard. With this I have made an old man's accommodation and am reconciled to the fruits of a fruitless endeavour. I don't torture myself with my failures, but when I was seventeen I did little else”
Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

Paulo Freire
“Education is thus constantly remade in the praxis. In order to be it must become. Its "duration" (in the Bergsonian meaning of the word) is found in the interplay of opposites permanence and change.”
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Ursula K. Le Guin
“It is a durable, ubiquitous, specious metaphor, that one about veneer (or paint, or pliofilm, or whatever) hiding the nobler reality beneath. It can conceal a dozen fallacies at once. One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that is is the opposite of primitiveness... Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin
“That geniality was not faked, but it was exaggerated. there was a warmth to the man, an outgoingness, which was real; but it had got plasticoated with professional mannerisms, distorted by the doctor's unspontaneous use of himself.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

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