"9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11 era" and perhaps will be forever? Sometimes it seems like it. It was such a monstrous act of imagination over anything else - the actual fatalities, while awful, were not what distinguished the event from others."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Porochista Khakpour

#Mean Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Forever Quotes

“Communities of every demographic (north, south, urban, rural, public animal control shelter, private shelter) have achieved No Kill success.”
“Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.”

Source : "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.
“... all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.”
“A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.”
“What is luck but something made to run out.”

Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan
“Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to make sense of things about which it is very difficult to make any sense - illness, death, despair, suicides, cruelty, the various troubles love can provoke, our inability to really know one another when we our inner selves are walled off by our bodies.”
“As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.”

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