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My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical,…
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What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.
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If you want to know about Africa, read our literature - and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like…
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Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.
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In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
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People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes
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What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of…
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You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness…
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What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of…
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Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.
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That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of…
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My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this…
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt…
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For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A…
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All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart…
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I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with…
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Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the…
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It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic,…
— Barack Obama
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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
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It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt…
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