"Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals."

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Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

Gretel Ehrlich

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“Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,”
“There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.”
“Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.”
“We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely”
“My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do”
“The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.”
“I don't know if I've ever written anything that's not a bill! I do write stories but I don't put a stamp on them. I wrote a story for my wife over Christmas and gave it to her as a present because she asked me to, but I don't put a stamp on things and send them to people.”
“Let's adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let's have a long-term debt reduction package. That's what I think we should do and I think it will work.”

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