"It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself."

-- Harold Brodkey

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“You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages; he or she is excluded from all the goodies that come with English. And even in terms of justice, law codes, the legal system. A person who does not know English in Africa is excluded from that system because he can only operate through acts of translation.”
“Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.”
“All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.”
“I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.”

Source : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.
“An eternal marriage is eternal. Eternal implies continuing growth and improvement. It signifies that love will grow stronger with time and that it extends beyond the grave. It means that each partner will be blessed with the company of the other partner forever. Eternal signifies repentance, forgiveness, long-suffering, patience, hope, charity, love, and humility. All of these things are involved in anything that is eternal, and surely we must learn and practice them if we intend to claim an eternal marriage.”
“You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.”
“I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2013.
“Thereâ€™s a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.”

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