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‘We keep ourselves to ourselves,’ that’s what Edna had said. It could be that this attitude also extended to God.
“Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”
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“When I hear somebody talk about a horse or cow being stupid; I figure it's a sure sign that the animal has somehow outfoxed them”
― True Unity: Willing Communication Between Horse and Human
― True Unity: Willing Communication Between Horse and Human
“A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, and fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.”
― Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
― Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
“That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
Ask Isabel Allende - Wednesday, February 12th!
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