"In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'."

-- Alain Badiou

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“The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.”

Source : Henry Lawson (1984). “A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922”
“A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.”
“It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.”
“Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had been reorganized by color and size. Shortly thereafter, the decorator met with a fatal automobile accident. I confess that when this story was told, everyone around the dinner table concurred that justice had been served.”

Source : Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.5, Macmillan
“You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.”
“I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.”
“This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.”
“I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could. ... As writers true to ourselves, it will always be hard, and if we're good, we'll always be in trouble. Let's be sure we deserve it.”

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