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“This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling patience and wetness of water. Whether it comes to you in a storm or in a cup, it owns you--we are more water than dust. It is our origin and our destination.”
― Denis Johnson, Resuscitation Of A Hanged Man
― Denis Johnson, Resuscitation Of A Hanged Man
“The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived -- nor could it, for that matter, be said that they had died-- through any of their terrible events. They had simply been stunned by the hammer. They passed their lives thereafter in a kind of limbo of denied and unexamined pain. The great question that faced him this morning was whether or not had had ever, really, been present at his life.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country
― James Baldwin, Another Country
“The interior life is often stupid.”
― Annie Dillard
― Annie Dillard
“The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.”
― James Baldwin
― James Baldwin
“ We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is the illusion of the healthy and the protected. Of sedate lovers. For the body has emotions it conceives and carries through without concern for anyone or anything else. Love is one of those, I guess. Going back to something very old knit into the brain as we were growing. Hopeless. Scorching. Ordinary. ”
― Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife
― Louise Erdrich, The Antelope Wife
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