"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament."

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Source : Quoted in David Lehman, Signs of the Times (1991)

Paul de Man

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“We trust people we can count on. We count on people who do what they say they will do when they say they will do it.”
“Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional women's work at the same time. But the same expansion of roles has not been available to men.”

Source : "International Men’s Day" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. Match 8, 2011.
“Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just one more time...? Despite the fact that it can never happen, never ever. Surely this is the saddest thing about our mortal world, and its sadness will go on shrouding human life like a blanket of fog until its final extinction.”
“The only advice that I know to give is to pray for your leaders. Whether you like it or not, we have a new president. As a church body, we need to remember these leaders, whether they are in office or not. Leaders in the workplace or the church, we need to remember them because they face some really hard decisions. So we need to pray for wisdom and peace and understanding and for patience, and for any and everything really because they're going to need it. So let's just gather around them and pray that God's will be done on earth, versus someone's agenda.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.”
“Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.
“Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. Itâ€™s a given and thatâ€™s the secret.”

Source : Jonathan Carroll (2010). “White Apples”, p.294, Macmillan
“There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.”

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