"Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's……" — Mark Doty
"Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours."
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Mark Doty
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25 Quotes by Mark Doty
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity…
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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…
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No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.
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To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual…
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Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will…
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One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently…
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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…
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In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially…
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize…
— Samuel Beckett
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
— H. L. Mencken
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Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their…
— Adam Sedgwick
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The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country,…
— Bill O'Reilly
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A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life,…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish…
— George W. S. Trow
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The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten…
— John A. Keel
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Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of…
— Frank Crowninshield
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A chronicle is very different from history proper.
— Howard Nemerov
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Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But…
— Henning Mankell
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History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.
— Louis Fischer
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Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence…
— Philip Gourevitch
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