But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because America makes no claim to the banal. America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of
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“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
― Rooftop Soliloquy
― Rooftop Soliloquy
“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
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