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The Miles Davis Reader

by Frank Alyker

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Nov 29, 2022 08:57PM

“Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all contemplation, all consideration of your own departure. All the suffering that would have come from knowing comes after you are gone, and you are not a part of it.”
― Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

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“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

tags: animals, despair, hope

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“Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

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“Come on, is your heart a sponge or a fist?”
― Tea Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

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“When your fight has purpose—to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent—it has a hope of finality. When the fight is about unraveling—when it is about your name, the places to which your blood is anchored, the attachment of your name to some landmark or event—there is nothing but hate, and the long, slow progression of people who feed on it and are fed it, meticulously, by the ones who come before them. Then the fight is endless, and comes in waves and waves, but always retains its capacity to surprise those who hope against it.”
― Tea Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

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