"When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left."

-- Louise Erdrich

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“Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.”
“I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.”

Source : Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books
“witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons, the song of the birds; it is the awareness of all things as holy ...”
“I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything.”
“But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.”
“We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1973). “The Prose of the World”, p.46, Northwestern University Press
“A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.”
“What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many a playwright's existence . . .. And since readings have become playwrights' main source of exposure, the nature of playwriting has changed to fit readings' needs. Investigation into what is eminently theatrical has been substituted - more and more these days - by what can simply come across and read well.”

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