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My main argument is precisely that we need to resist the knee-jerk reactions that come so readily to mind. Before we can answer those questions in anything other than the broadest outline, we need a time of lament, of restraint, of
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“Joyce is right about history being a nightmare—but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“I know now that if we choose to keep any part of what is behind us, we must take all of it, hold each moment up to the light like a photograph.”
― Bellocq's Ophelia
― Bellocq's Ophelia
“This world is a great busy thoroughfare,
To succeed you must elbow your way,
If you wait for success to come to you,
You'll wait there and die in dismay.”
― Poetic Pearls
To succeed you must elbow your way,
If you wait for success to come to you,
You'll wait there and die in dismay.”
― Poetic Pearls
“Live so that the world will need you,
Daily tread the path of light,
Keep a bag of sunshine with you,
Be a jewel pure and bright.”
― Poetic Pearls
Daily tread the path of light,
Keep a bag of sunshine with you,
Be a jewel pure and bright.”
― Poetic Pearls
“The act of writing is a way to create another world in language, a dwelling place for the psyche wherein the chaos of the external world is transformed, shaped into a made thing, and ordered. It is an act of reclamation. And resistance: the soul sings for justice and the song is poetry.”
― The House of Being
― The House of Being
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