"Some of the worst neighborhoods are so physically isolated, and more than anything, they're spiritually isolated. They're so close and yet so far. A lot of Chicagoans might not spend any time there, and what contact they do have is through what they see in the news, which is a little unsettling."

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Alex Kotlowitz

#Worst Quotes #Neighborhood Quotes

“I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.”
“Business news is sexy.”
“In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.”

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“The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, 'How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?' We know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.”
“One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.”
“The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book.”
“"I accept your condemnation," I said.”
“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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