"Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers."

-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?”
“Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.133, Shambhala Publications
“Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.”
“For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.”
“All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.”
“To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.”
“Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.”

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