"It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry on, as well as showing us aspects of ourselves we can't easily see. For listening to the stories of others - not to their precautions or personal commandments - is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name."

-- Mark Nepo

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“We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.”
“The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.”

Source : Song: A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to be Free, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004
“Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.”
“The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.”

Source : Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings: A Novel”, p.206, Penguin
“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
“I'm always challenged by someone.”
“Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.”
“This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.”

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