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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
Mary Oliver
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Evil only prevails when we mistake it for the norm.
Maria Popova via On Being
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett/id150892556?mt=2&i=1000342173554
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“...if you can keep some kind of little contour that you can glimpse sideways at now and again, you can endure great bleakness.” John O’Donohue on beauty via On Being podcast. https://onbeing.org/programs/john-odonohue-the-inner-landscape-of-beauty-aug2017/
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Stanley Kunitz, The Round. Read the full poem here.
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“It’s new, but I don’t know what to do / with the sight of your brimming.” - Hotelier, ‘End of Reel’
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“A monster is a person who stopped pretending.” - Colson Whitehead on writing (and watching) horror in The New Yorker.
#colson whitehead#zone one#fiction#writing#writers#novel#novelists#writing quotations#The New Yorker
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If it all worked out exactly as you had planned, it means you missed something along the way.
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“Be kind to everybody, make art, and fight the power.” - Colson Whitehead
#colson whitehead#writing#famous quotes#Inspirational Quotations#writers#novel#books#fiction#underground railroad#pulitzer prize
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Clever literary homage by Evil Twin Brewery: the 5.5% ABV sour lager “Brett Yeast & Helles.” Disappear here.
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The gift I received as a founding member of Books Are Magic in Brooklyn: signed and numbered Colson Whitehead quotation.
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...this was the miracle of her: that at every instant in the chaos of innumerable possible movements she chose the only one that was right and clear and light and necessary, the only gesture that, among an infinity of wasted gestures, counted.
From "The Adventure of a Skier" by Italo Calvino http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/the-adventure-of-a-skier/amp
#short fiction#short stories#italo calvino#new yorker magazine#literary quotes#literature#reading#now reading#fiction
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There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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