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    Grace Paley
    “The only recognizable feature of hope is action.”
    ― Grace Paley
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    Marina Tsvetaeva
    “One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.”
    ― Marina Tsvetaeva, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922
    tags: poetry, russian, writing-advice
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    Mahmoud Darwish
    “I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.”
    ― Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982
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    Rachel Corrie
    “I got a number of very thoughtful responses to the email I sent out last night, most of which I don’t have time to respond to right now. Thanks everyone for the encouragement, questions, criticism. Daniel’s response was particularly inspiring to me and deserves to be shared. The resistance of Israeli Jewish people to the occupation and the enormous risk taken by those refusing to serve in the Israeli military offers an example, especially for those of us living in the United States, of how to behave when you discover that atrocities are being commited in your name. Thank you.”
    ― Rachel Corrie
    tags: love, palestine, palestinians, rachel-corrie, racism, world
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    Ida B. Wells-Barnett
    “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
    ― Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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    Ezra Pound
    “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
    ― Ezra Pound
    tags: books, light, reading
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    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
    ― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    tags: bravery, fear, perseverence, strength
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    Alice Munro
    “There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. I believe this.”
    ― Alice Munro
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    Jerzy Grotowski
    “If you want to create a masterpiece, you must always avoid beautiful lies.”
    ― Jerzy Grotowski
    tags: art, beauty, masterpiece, theater
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  • #10
    “The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.”
    ― Arshile Gorky
    tags: armenian, armenians, eyes, sadness, wisdom
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    George Konrád
    “We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.”
    ― George Konrád
    tags: memory, trauma, war
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    Delmore Schwartz
    “What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?”
    ― Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
    tags: childhood, constraints, freedom, memory
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    Margaret Bourke-White
    “I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.”
    ― Margaret Bourke-White
    tags: eternal, quest, understanding, wisdom
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    Osip Mandelstam
    “The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled words, the layers of air in the semi-vowels.”
    ― Osip Mandelstam, Journey to Armenia
    tags: armenia, armenian, language
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    Eqbal Ahmad
    “We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.”
    ― Eqbal Ahmad, Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire
    tags: extremism, fundamentalism, medieval, modern, politics
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    Doris Lessing
    “Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.”
    ― Doris Lessing
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    Jean Said Makdisi
    “Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?”
    ― Jean Said Makdisi
    tags: banishment, community, punishment
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    Anthony Trollope
    “The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.”
    ― Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds
    tags: bad-people, characters, good
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    William Saroyan
    “Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.”
    ― William Saroyan
    tags: inspirational
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: fashion
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    Nancy Kricorian
    “On good days I felt like a chrysalis from which a butterfly had emerged, and on bad days I felt like a chewing-gum wrapper someone had thrown in the hedges.”
    ― Nancy Kricorian, Zabelle
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    Nancy Kricorian
    “This world is made of darkness and light, my girl, and in the darkest times you have to believe the sun will come again, even if you yourself don't live to see it.”
    ― Nancy Kricorian, All The Light There Was
    tags: world-war-ii
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    Malalai Joya
    “I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those who would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.”
    ― Malalai Joya, Raising My Voice
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    Djuna Barnes
    “I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.”
    ― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
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    Vasily Grossman
    “Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.”
    ― Vasily Grossman
    tags: human-kindness
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    Marina Tsvetaeva
    “(Everyday life is like a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.)”
    ― Marina Tsvetaeva
    tags: inspiration, life, perseverance, russia
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    Arundhati Roy
    “There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
    ― Arundhati Roy
    tags: ignored, silence, silenced, subaltern, unheard, voiceless
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    Eva Hoffman
    “The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.”
    ― Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
    tags: joy, language, writing
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    Adrienne Rich
    “Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.”
    ― Adrienne Rich, Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
    tags: poetry, poets, poets-on-poetry, women-poets
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    Arundhati Roy
    “Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.”
    ― Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story
    tags: capitalism, corporations, environment, war
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