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it is so easy and it costs so little labour to write down ten bushels of barley, or a hundred head of cattle, or ten fields of spelt—and the thing that is written will come to seem like the real thing, and so the writer and the scribe will
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“We have the option to either empower our existence with love, purpose, and beauty, or allow ourselves to become slaves to ignorance and agony.”
― Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
― Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
“The rights and liberties represented by democracy, many agreed, were losing ground across the globe to restrictions imposed by authoritarian autocracy… It appeared ignorance had indeed managed to secure an alliance with power (to paraphrase James Baldwin’s famous quote) to become the most ferocious enemy of justice on the contemporary historical landscape.”
― Songbirds and Roses: The Unusual Life Story of an Unusual Poem
― Songbirds and Roses: The Unusual Life Story of an Unusual Poem
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
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