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• You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need…
• Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they…
• For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there…
• I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s…
• No one will love you more than you love your pain.
• You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
• We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
• I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a…
• There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that…
• Jephthah called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim,…
• More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you…
• I was neither doing these people nor myself a favor by showing up when my heart wasn't in it. There were not…

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