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“Only when the increase of gifts moves with the gift may the accumulated wealth of our spirit continue to grow among us, so that each of us may enter, and be revived by, a vitality beyond his or her solitary powers.”
― Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

“In a free market the people are free, the ideas are locked up.”
― Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

“An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation.”
― Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

“Funny how guilt sneaks into my lungs and tries to strangle me, just when I think I wrestled it into the past.”
― Adela Crandell Durkee, A Ship of Pearl

“That was before I found out that capitalists are just communists without the polyester.”
― Brigid Pasulka, A Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True

“When someone is telling you what to do all the time, anything you do of your own volition becomes a protest, doesn’t it?”
― Brigid Pasulka, A Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True

“The third day, Matrona awoke with bones of iron instead of lead, a headache that tapped instead of pounded, and clear vision that only spotted when she moved too quickly.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Fifth Doll

“Pull down its walls, see what’s truly on the other side of them.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Fifth Doll

“Yes. You see, it’s not 1 of those germs that break bleed suck gnaw or devour. It’s nothing we can bring into focus or categorize; once we call it 1 thing it forms into something else.”
― Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel

“America is the smart-aleck adolescent who’s “been around” and has his own hot rod.”
― Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel

“Dance is the universal art, the common joy of expression. Those who cannot dance are imprisoned in their own ego and cannot live well with other people and the world. They have lost the tune of life. They only live in cold thinking. Their feelings are deeply repressed while they attach themselves forlornly to the earth.”
― Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel

“Scars mean we survived something, even when the wounds still hurt.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Summer Children

“Perhaps, he considered, her hypocrisy had become so ingrained that she was no longer even capable of perceiving it as such.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“You already knew the right thing to do. You just needed someone to confirm it for you.”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“We all know that books burn—yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. . . . In this war, we know, books are weapons. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)”
― John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods

“Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the government rots.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day