"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
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“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
“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
“There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.”
― Mount Pleasant
― Mount Pleasant
“I had to decide between being a man who is not entirely a man, and being a dead man. I chose the former.”
― A Man Who is Not a Man
― A Man Who is Not a Man
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