"Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life."

-- George Sand

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“We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.”

Source : "Keating speech still powerful 25 years on". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 8, 2017.
“You don't owe anybody the present other than yourself. Take time for you. Respect yourself and your privacy. Set boundaries.”
“Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If you add UC Berkeley + 1984 the other side of the = is "new historian" meaning that I studied with and was influenced by those who were interested in how the personal shaped the political (and literary), how science and literature might interact, and what the body got to do with it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good ...”
“Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.”
“Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.”

Source : 'The Garden of Kama' (1901) 'Less than the Dust'
“Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.”
“No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.”

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