"Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers."

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Source : Stephen Dunn (1999). “Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Dunn

#Links Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Answers Quotes

“It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.”
“That which is denied cannot be healed.”
“As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.”
“If you pursue an evenhanded policy between a cat and a mouse, do you help the mouse to survive - or allow the cat to eat half the mouse?”
“It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.”

Source : "Africa and the Six ‘I’s: Independence, Investment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Incubation, Inspiration" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.
“I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.”
“What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is not photography good enough in itself, that it must be made to look like something else, supposedly superior?”
“Obamacare is a crime against democracy.”

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