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“I understand,” I said. “It’s not the box’s fault that it disappeared. But what can we do? It’s disturbing to see things that have disappeared, like tossing something hard and thorny into a peaceful pond. It sets up ripples, stirs up a
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“He didn't think people changed much—his people anyway. Their souls had been ripped apart trying to stop what could never be stopped, and they took a fierce pride in opening old wounds just to show they could endure them again.”
― The Serpent's Sage
― The Serpent's Sage
“Evil?" Womble rarely used the word in his work. It was a storybook word. Neither right nor wrong. A word made up to fill a gap in how to talk about the world when it tilted on its side spilling out more blood and pain than people could stand.”
― The Serpent's Sage
― The Serpent's Sage
“A statement on the political responsibility of the critic: the critic must attempt to fully realize, and take responsibility for, the unspoken, unrepresented pasts that haunt the historical present.”
― The Location of Culture
― The Location of Culture
“Whenever people wonder “What is the truth?” usually it is because the truth is just under their noses—but it would be very inconvenient to acknowledge it.”
― The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays
― The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays
“The future can never be larger than the past," she said to his disappearing back. "What will happen can never escape what has.”
― The Serpent's Sage
― The Serpent's Sage
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