"But something occurred to me as I sped……" — Steve Almond
"But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live."
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Steve Almond
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26 Quotes by Steve Almond
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Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.
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All language is an aspiration to music.
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The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female…
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True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by…
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of…
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And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end…
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The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to…
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Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it,…
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There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies,
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