"To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep"

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Source : Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany (2005). “We Who Are About To...”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

Joanna Russ

#Dying Quotes #Earth Quotes

“The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.”
“In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.”
“Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.”
“His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.”
“I will follow anyone... and invite everyone... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.”
“I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.”
“Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.”
“It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.”

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