"The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Alex Lemon

#Knives Quotes #Joy Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The most sophisticated pop musician that I knew of and liked was Paul McCartney.”
“If you understand life...you MUST be misinformed!”
“Get out of your rut and into the groove...”
“Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.”
“Iâ€™ll never second guess the things that I have done. Iâ€™ve got too much left to say and too much to become.”
“If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.”
“I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what theyâ€™ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.”

Source : Greg Mortenson (2008). “Three Cups Of Tea”, p.329, Penguin UK

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