"reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative."

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Elizabeth Janeway

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“I like to try and mix diction and experiences.”

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“I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.”
“We all die. It's just a question of when.”
“I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world.”
“If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage,”
“Memoir is a weird genre for a reporter. You end up investigating your own memories, reporting out your past.”
“The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.”
“Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.”

Source : Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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