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- If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
- It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country…
- Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new…
- And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I…
- I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion…
- I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
- If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then…
- These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger…
- It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from…
- Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great…
- I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just…
- Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
- Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a…
- As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the…
- In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry…
- My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the…
- The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
- For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
- ...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
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