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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss…
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Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
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All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.
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There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.
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This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses,…
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No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.
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Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that…
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To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though…
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Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what…
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One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the…
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We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.
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The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing,…
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I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news…
— Dave Barry
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Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.
— Judith Moore
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What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems
— Muhammad Ali
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Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that…
— Mark Doty
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Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of…
— William Shakespeare
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If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling.…
— Jayne Anne Phillips
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A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
— Elizabeth Edwards
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For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings...
— William Shakespeare
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You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
— John Green
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Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
— Cornelia Funke
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Sad stories make good books
— Khaled Hosseini
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