"All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge."

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Geoff Dyer

#Ignorance Quotes #Journey Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When hip-hop came on the scene, it was the last legitimate creation of a new genre.”
“There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.”
“If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
“The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.395
“Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.”
“I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store”
“Prayer is a walk with God....We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it, you'll never have that intimacy of ministering to the Lord and worshiping Him with a group that you'll have in your own individual life.”
“... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?”

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