"God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant."

-- Sophie Swetchine

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“With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of America, the paradox that distills America, is that this greatest of American contributions to humanity, this American contribution that probably has influenced more people around the world for the good, that probably has brought more people around the world unqualified joy, was born of America's greatest evil, slavery. Or one of the two great evils anyway, counting the European extinction of those who were on the continent first.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.”
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.7, Counterpoint Press
“I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.”
“For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.”
“None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.”
“Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.”
“A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.”

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