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My son wandered into the kitchen and lingered to eavesdrop on the conversation. At one point, he broke in. ‘I don’t know how you have the courage to say those things,’ he said. ‘I could never talk like that in front of people.’ Hicks smiled
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“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“God does not exist, God is not good. All that awaits us is the cat who will urinate on our grave.”
― Where the Bird Sings Best
― Where the Bird Sings Best
“It is written, we musn’t forget, in the Prisonhouse of Nations —the United States of America. Here, there are more than 2.3 million men, women, and juveniles under lock and key. As theNewYork Timeshas recently reported, the U.S. has just under 5 percent of the world’s population, yet it has a quarter of the world’s prison population.1 In the realm of imprisonment, the United States truly is Number one.”
― Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA
― Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA
“DAWN I held the summer dawn in my arms. Nothing stirred in front of the palaces. The water was dead. Camps of shadows rested on the road through the woods. I walked, awakening live warm breaths as precious stones looked on and wings soundlessly rose. The first undertaking, in a path already filled with cool pale glimmers of light, was a flower that told me its name. I laughed at a blonde wasserfall whose tresses streamed between firs; at the silvered summit I recognized the goddess. So, one by one, I lifted her veils. In a lane, whirling my arms. In a field, shouting to a rooster. Into the city she fled, between steeples and domes, and I gave chase, running like a beggar on marble docks. At the crest of the road, near a stand of laurels, I enveloped her in her gathered veils, and felt something of her boundless shape. Dawn and the child fell to the forest floor. It was noon when I awoke.”
― Rimbaud Complete
― Rimbaud Complete
“Like all empires, the harsh and violent forms of control that have been used on the “wretched of the earth,” have migrated back to the homeland in a time of decay to keep the population in check. The tyranny we have imposed on others is now being imposed on us.”
― Murder Incorporated - Dreaming of Empire: Book One
― Murder Incorporated - Dreaming of Empire: Book One
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