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Historically, the most efficient form of genocide has been to displace people from their homes, herd them together, and block their access to food and water. p427 from the essay Listening to Grasshoppers

Here she belonged. Here she could utter things, could be honest about where her mind had drifted, and they wouldn't look at her like she was mad....And no one punished you for caring too much, thinking too deeply. p264

The price of...vigilance is freedom. p559

Yes, I am aware that I read this some 10 yrs ago. After reading my original review, I will be more circumspect towards the end.
Gotta say, I remember nothing and I love it.

I see no virtue in bad manners, hee said....p246
He is the most desirable man in the world, even though she has never been able to finish any of his books. p259

This is an efficient woman, trained in outwitting her weaknesses, in medicating her real or imagined illnesses, in forestalling accidents of forgetting and oversight.
p156

Our dreams do not lie, though they may deceive usn but we may lie about our dreams. p9

remember his grief and despair when his hand could not reproduce the beautiful imaginings of his brain and his eye. p52

...suffering, regret and pain are an inevitable parts of life, but they can't be allowed to dominate it. p113

To defend their p1oints, they were capable of hurting each other. p121

Religion is a faith with limitations....p51

no one questioned him as he sat for years under the light of the standard lamp in his front room,
reading.... p264

I spent all winter in the half made house with a hole in the wall and a huge empty hole in my gut, where God used to be. p243

We sat in rain for years, wondering if our children would evolve gills or bicycle pedals instep or feet...p196

But there's always the little things that you can find if you poke sround with a negative attitude. p179

A story is the most beautiful way of bearing witness to the world.....They complete the impossible conundrum of existence. p97

He had no control over the past- could only shine it up here and there and shut up about the rest.
p142

He wanted to step clear of his mess but saw no way other than to keep on lying. But lying made their talk useless. p60

we also have to fill our cups. We can only yell that our lives matter and we deserve justice if we have the energy to do so. p139

How is one to live in a way that does not cannibalize the lives of others, that does not reduce them to mascots, objects of fascination, mere terms in the logic of a dominant culture? p78

Who knows what's happening in someone else's head?He cannot with any confidence say what's happening in his own head. p30

To advocate for others in an honorable way, we need to be able to look at ourselves in the mirror and like who looks back. p83

There's a certain comfort in knowing your way around a gig and being able to do it on autopilot- even if you wake up every morning with dread about going to do it. p60

Writing my thoughts in a journal allows me to tap into a wisdom that, while accessible when I'm giving...to other people, requires a bit of digging in order to access for myself. 46

I felt slightly depressed as the conversation continued, owing to the realization that I was talking to someone for whom all the vanities and selfishness to which I am prone were non-existent. I had an unusually strong desire to be at my best in his presence....p321

spiritual experience is accidental, and spiritual practice makes you accident - prone. p31

A stranger meeting me then would have thought I was a dangerous lunatic. p289

Perhaps everything that frightens us, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. p133

on Mount Athos...this completely unmaterialistic atmosphere the innate goodness of human nature is given a chance to breathe. p177