"All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work."

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Kate Zambreno

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“[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."”
“I'm awkward around girls.”
“Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill (1956). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed. The Mystery of Sacrifice, a Meditation on the Liturgy”
“All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.”
“Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered.”
“I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.”

Source : 'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn' (1681) l. 71
“The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope that we can all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been.”
“For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an â€˜ism becomes so involved in reaction against other â€˜isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.”

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