"You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy."

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Source : Barry Hannah (2007). “Yonder Stands Your Orphan”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Barry Hannah

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“I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.”
“Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.”
“You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'”
“On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. . . We have not the courage to carry our cross, and we are very much mistaken; for, whatever we do, the cross holds us tight - we cannot escape from it. What, then, have we to lose? Why not love our crosses, and make use of them to take us to heaven?”
“Arise, arise, Riders of ThÃ©oden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!”
“The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.”

Source : "Threats And Responses: The Iraqis; U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest For A-Bomb Parts" by Judith Miller and Michael R. Gordon, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 2002.
“The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.”
“We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.”

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