"There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it will i give up, for my beautiful sister Ivy who lies in bed. Ivy who used to be alive. Ivy who used to be. Ivy who used. Ivy who. Ivy-who-is-not-me. Not me. Not me. Not me."

-- Alison McGhee

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“In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.”
“Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.”
“You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.”
“And what was it about the dark that made her question things sheâ€™d never questioned before, in the day.”
“All the parts of us that we ever were are always going to be with us. You make space to carry them and you just try not to let them drive. But you can't chuck them out either.”
“The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.”
“Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.”
“They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.”

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