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We all think of the inconvenience of making an effort.
We're all going to do the right things a little later on. Soon.
But soon slides by so easily. Then we vow we'll try to do better. We all carry that little oppressive weight around in the back of our mind—that we should be living better, trying harder, but we're not. We're all living just about as well as we can at any given moment...

"That is one of the great troubles, I thought, after I hung up. The people you have great empathy with are never conveniently located nearby. Many are, but the rest are scattered far and wide. You see them too seldom.
But you can always pick up right where you left off. You know who they are. They know who you are. No reintroductions required."

Pa?"
"His father was awake. "It's all right, Mat. It is only a storm. The mountains do not mind the storms. There have been many storms upon these rocks."

"This time, my dead love, I am not doing my knightly routine. I have shelved that as inappropriate for the occasion. The old tin-can knight had too many compunctions, scruples, whatevers. For this caper, I am the iceman. I have come here and brought the ice. It is a delivery service. One time only"

Pg 148

"When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own."

Pg 50

"They are not a brighter generation than ever before. They have been exposed to more input, so much they have been unable to appraise and assimilate it, but are able to turn it into immediate output, impressively glib, and commercially sin-cere."

"Freire's critical educational project in two significant ways. First, as noted in Chapter 1, Freire's approach focused on the role of education in building social movements in post-colonial contexts. Giroux, however, attempted to theorize the relationship between schools and society and the possibilities of schools as sites of radical democratic social reform in Western nation-states."
P.75

For a long time he had fitted sensibly into the steady progress of his days and nights, knowing without any effort ....Now the internal timekeeping device had stopped. Three hours could disappear between heartbeats, and ten minutes could appear to last all afternoon. It had the remembered flavor of childhood, when Saturday was always a vast glad surprise, and Monday was a generation away.

Once it is dead, nothing can be proven. All glorious speculation is valid.

P168

"But he fought for what he believed."

"Most men do, up to a point. But when they stand to lose too much, and gain too little, they think up reasons to stay out of it."