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“Lives interweave with other lives, and out of the tapestry arise hints at answers to questions that raze to the bone of life: What are the building blocks of character, of contentment, of lasting achievement? How does a person come into self-possession and sovereignty of mind against the tide of convention and unreasoning collectivism? Does genius suffice for happiness, does distinction, does love?”
― Figuring
― Figuring
“(Interviews Ntozake Shange) “What do you think an artist’s job is?”
“To keep our sensibilities alive, so we aren’t numb by our struggles to survive. That’s what I think our job is right now.”
― The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art
“To keep our sensibilities alive, so we aren’t numb by our struggles to survive. That’s what I think our job is right now.”
― The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art
“Paradise is a world where everything is a sanctuary and nothing is a gun.”
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“This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Yes, the past is a foreign country," I said, "but some of us are full-fledged citizens, others occasional tourists, and some floating itinerants, itching to get out yet always aching to return."
"There's a life that takes place in ordinary time," I said, "and another that bursts in but just as suddenly fizzles out. And then there's the life we may never reach but that could so easily be ours if only we knew how to find it. It doesn't necessarily happen on our planet, but is just as real as the one we live by—call it our 'star life.' Nietzsche wrote that estranged friends may become declared enemies but in some mysterious way continue to remain friends, though on a totally different sphere. He called these 'star friendships.”
― Enigma Variations
"There's a life that takes place in ordinary time," I said, "and another that bursts in but just as suddenly fizzles out. And then there's the life we may never reach but that could so easily be ours if only we knew how to find it. It doesn't necessarily happen on our planet, but is just as real as the one we live by—call it our 'star life.' Nietzsche wrote that estranged friends may become declared enemies but in some mysterious way continue to remain friends, though on a totally different sphere. He called these 'star friendships.”
― Enigma Variations
Ruby’s 2025 Year in Books
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