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“I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority.”
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“The promise is that again and again from the garbage the scattered feathers the ashes and broken bodies something new and beautiful may be born”
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“I was scared of one thing after another. I still am.
Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless or you can be free, you can’t be both.”
― Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths
Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless or you can be free, you can’t be both.”
― Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths
“If you have to cry, he said, and sometimes you can’t help it, if you have to cry, cry afterwards, never during! Remember this. Unless you’re with those who love you, only those who love you, and in that case you’re already lucky, for there are never many who love you — if you’re with them, you can cry during. Otherwise you cry afterwards”
― Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths
― Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths
“But for the overcrowded, for those who have little or nothing except, sometimes, courage and love, hope works differently. Hope is then something to bite on, to put between the teeth. Don't forget this. Be a realist. With hope between the teeth comes the strength to carry on even when fatigue never lets up, comes strength, when necessary, to choose not to shout at the wrong moment, comes the strength above all not to howl. A person, with hope between her or his teeth, is a brother or sister who commands respect.”
― Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
― Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
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