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APPETITE, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
“If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be?
It would be this: the world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.”
― Stella Maris
It would be this: the world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.”
― Stella Maris
“Why did white folks think you could live on nothing but art? Strange! Too strange! Too strange!”
― The Ways of White Folks: Stories
― The Ways of White Folks: Stories
“If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.”
― Stella Maris
― Stella Maris
“He knew that on the day of his death he would see her face and he could hope to carry that beauty into the darkness with him, the last pagan on earth, singing softly upon his pallet in an unknown tongue.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
“In the spring of the year birds began to arrive on the beach from across the gulf. Weary passerines. Vireos. Kingbirds and grosbeaks. Too exhausted to move. You could pick them up out of the sand and hold them trembling in your palm. Their small hearts beating and their eyes shuttering. He walked the beach with his flashlight the whole of the night to fend away predators and toward the dawn he slept with them in the sand. That none disturb these passengers.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
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