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“After a year, how many days in it will you never think of again?”
― Dhalgren
― Dhalgren
“Only in the desert can forgotten things still flourish.”
― The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories
― The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories
“God’s country! With Negros treated like animals! God’s country, with its smug sense of superiority to the rest of the world! God’s country, with its mania for material gadgets and signs that warn: “Gentiles only!”
― Ashes of Izalco
― Ashes of Izalco
“With the warmth and pleasure that are the results of an intimate relationship with another human being, whether friend, lover, parent or child , comes the pain to which such intimacy makes us vulnerable. With hearts and minds fused we bruise as easily as we caress.”
― TREES ON THE CLIFF : A NOVEL OF KOREA AND TWO STORIES
― TREES ON THE CLIFF : A NOVEL OF KOREA AND TWO STORIES
“[he] thought that war consumed people from the inside, leaving them without ethical substance; it reduced them to blurry and dusty scarecrows who simply repeated gestures learned at an earlier age of the universe. The blindness of the conflict left them like trees riddled with termites.”
― Rattlesnake
― Rattlesnake
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