"Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would."

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Source : Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “Dora: A Headcase”, p.99, Hawthorne Books

Lidia Yuknavitch

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“Climate change is there as a reminder that we can get richer and safer societies that are also consuming more and more to the point where the stability of Earth's systems is being challenged at potentially catastrophic levels. I don't think we can stop that. Just the very same worries I have about prediction on the positive progressive side - I mean, predictions that say we'll be great, we'll be fine - also apply to predictions that are too catastrophic. I'm not sure we get those predictions right either.”
“... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.”
“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”
“To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.”
“I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.”
“It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.”
“The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art.”
“I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.”

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