Defying D

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
― John Dryden, The Poetical Works of John Dryden

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone