"Time is as necessary for remembering as it is for forgetting. Even the smallest embrace of pain needs time larger than a pause; the greatest pause requires an eternity, the greatest hurt a lifetime. A lifetime is longer than eternity: an eternity can exist without human presence."

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Source : Yvonne Vera (2004). “The Stone Virgins: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

Yvonne Vera

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“Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The doctor said gently, What I'm going to say will sound pretty wild. But you're not the father of this strange looking child. You see, there still is some question about the child's gender, but we think that its father is a microwave blender.”
“Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving devotion, the hurricane pauses and calms. Its ravings turn to mutters.”
“I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.”
“The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.”
“I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.”

Source : "Exclusive: A Conversation With Eugene Jarecki, Director of Reagan Doc". Interview with Tommy Christopher, www.mediaite.com. February 7, 2011.
“Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!”
“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”

Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.39, New Directions Publishing
“Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses. Applause, then, never bore much relation to the reality of my life as an astronaut, which was not all about, or even mostly about, flying around in space.”

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