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“The presence in a memoir or an essay of the truth speaker - the narrator that a writer pulls out of his or her own agitated and boring self to organize a piece of experience - it was about this alone that I felt I had something to say; and it was to those works in which such a narrator comes through strong and clear that I was invariably drawn.”
― The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
― The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
“It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.”
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“I don't think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it's only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.”
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“The unsurrogated narrator has the monumental task of transforming low-level self-interest into the kind of detached empathy required of a piece of writing that is to be of value to the disinterested reader.”
― The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
― The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
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