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“If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons.”
“Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
“Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my fri...”
“Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)”
“There are no humans left. I should not be alone. I cant help but wonder that. There were so many of us living. But time started growing young four years ago. It isnt four years anymore. Its a numbe...”
“To summarize, Easter Sunday is the most important Sunday. It is the Sunday of all Sundays. It is the day of the new beginning of the entire cosmos, the day of resurrection. In our worship we must b...”
“I love you. I can't remember when I fell in love with you but very naturally, I had fallen in love with you before I knew it. The first time I met you, you were a strong and kind boy. You always pr...”
“I argue against purism not because I want a devastated world, the Mordor of industrial capitalism emerging as from a closely aligned alternate universe through our floating islands of plastic gradu...”
“It was so stupid, and random, but at that second, with the morning sun hitting her auburn hair, and her huge brown eyes fixed on him, the lock flew off the do-not-allow-yourself-to-even-think-about...”
“He stilled my room, for sure.”
“There is a folk-tale about a shoemaker and his wife who were so poor that they had to send their many children out into the world to make a living. The lads went through many a perilous adventure b...”
“Music is our bidet, man.”
“To dance to fey music is the beginning of the end.”
“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”
“Everything seemed less frightening with music, even more so with music I knew by heart. It forced a familiar perspective on the scary unknown that was about to happen.”
“There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
“Music is where I feel loved. Past, present. Music is where I give love. Why do I continue to enter rooms of strangers who are suffering, dying, cursing, diminished, unwashed? Because of love. I don...”
“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”
“No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend”
“He knew this could turn out to be a very dangerous ploy if it backfired, but he also knew he had his best friend firmly on his side. If nothing else, he knew he could let her take all the blame and...”
