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“What will you do when you have to move away?” the woman asked at length, leaving my question unanswered. “When the region’s no longer inhabitable, I mean.” She said when, not if, as though it were inevitable—as though she were speaking of ...more
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Daniel Alarcón
“You don’t sound like a scientist, you sound like a poet.”

Rey smiled, “Can I be both?”

But you’d rather be a poet.”

Who wouldn’t?” he said.”
Daniel Alarcon

Anne Lamott
“Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.”
Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Vladimir Nabokov
“All colors made me happy: even gray.
My eyes were such that literally they
Took photographs. ”
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

Ben Fountain
“There is a vast asymmetry in the dynamic here that Billy can’t quite put his finger on, even though it’s the elephant shitting all over the room.”
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Adrienne Rich
“ I used myself, let nothing use me.
Like being on a private dole,

sometimes more like cutting bricks in Egypt.
What life there was, was mine,

now and again to lay
one hand on a warm brick

and touch the sun's ghost
with economical joy.”
Adrienne Rich

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