"he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean"

-- Anne Carson

“The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.”
“Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.”

Source : Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.61, Beacon Press
“I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.”
“You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.”
“In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.”
“You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The feeling that someone owes us something, the pain for the harm that others caused us, etc., stops the inner progress of the soul.”
“When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.”

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