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The truth is that it’s not just about having the answers or the information; it’s about what we do with it. The implementation. Action without information is chaos, but information without action is a waste. The key to unlocking our full ...more
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Edith Wharton
“...and my heart tightened for the hard compulsions of the poor.”
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

Omar El Akkad
“It’s come to shape the way I think about every country, every community: Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“Dana had Society, Respectability, Tradition, Moral judgment, Time, Security (especially Security), and the generations of cuckolded husbands who had provided him with lessons in how to win by employing patience. Dana Holmes could afford to laugh at Milt Warden who had the audacity to try to defeat this array of heavy artillery with the popgun of Love. Because could you just point out to me once, please, sir, one single time that Love had ever bought anything? In these United States of the United Middle Class of Solid-Fronted United Greater America?”
James Jones, From here to eternity: de volledige en ongecensureerde editie

D.H. Lawrence
“The salt, bitter passion of the sea, its indifference to the earth, its swinging, definite motion, its strength, its attack, and its salt burning, seemed to provoke her to a pitch of madness, tantalizing her with vast suggestions of fulfilment.”
D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

Richard Ford
“You shouldn't think you're not supposed to be happy, Paul. You understand that? You shouldn't get used to not being happy just because you can't make everything fit down right. Everything doesn't fit down right. You have to let some things go finally.”
Richard Ford, Independence Day

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