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Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
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When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned…
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If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's…
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A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.
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I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.
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Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail…
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Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
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I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.
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Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet…
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Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing…
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It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your…
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No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you…
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Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
— Hermann Hesse
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Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.
— Paulo Coelho
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The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time…
— John Vinocur
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Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no…
— Mary Karr
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Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and…
— Hermann Hesse
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Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the…
— John Desmond Bernal
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If we just see REAL SUFFERING, we won't COMPLAIN ANYMORE! :)
— Angelina Jolie
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