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It is a fact universally acknowledged that it’s impossible to stay furious in close proximity to a newborn elephant.
“We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. (4.1.56–58)”
― Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
― Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
“The women, so many missing and murdered Indigenous women, were all connected. To one another. To me, she thought, to a mother tree. They were all one. They were red.”
― Mask of the Deer Woman
― Mask of the Deer Woman
“Almost one in nine Americans—including one in eight children—live in poverty.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“The states that have taken in the most immigrants over the past half century have not grown poorer.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“My dearest husband, Can it really be ten long years since you sailed from Ithaca to join Agamemnon and the other Greek kings in their ignoble quest to bring Helen back from Troy? Was it a thousand ships which sailed, in the end? That’s what the bards sing now. A thousand ships, all sailing across the perilous oceans in hope of finding one man’s wife. It remains, I’m sure you agree, an astonishing state of affairs.”
― A Thousand Ships
― A Thousand Ships
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