Howard Palmer
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"Lyrical, brutal, moving, puts you in a time a place and a must read for those who want to get a greater understanding of what it was like for human to be treated worst than animals. Horrendous, what we Americans did." — May 04, 2017 06:30AM
"Lyrical, brutal, moving, puts you in a time a place and a must read for those who want to get a greater understanding of what it was like for human to be treated worst than animals. Horrendous, what we Americans did." — May 04, 2017 06:30AM
“Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.”
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“You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.”
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“In order to approach now the very concept of forgiveness, logic and common sense agree for once with the paradox: it is necessary, it seems to me, to begin from the fact that, yes, there is the unforgivable. Is this not, in truth, the only thing to forgive? The only thing that calls for forgiveness? If one is only prepared to forgive what appears forgivable, what the church calls 'venial sin', then the very idea of forgiveness would disappear. If there is something to forgive, it would be what in religious language is called mortal sin, the worst, the unforgivable crime or harm.”
― On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness
― On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness
“There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.”
― Stigmata: Escaping Texts
― Stigmata: Escaping Texts
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