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"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."
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"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"

"Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the side of his bunk on the ship, keeping a deathwatch over him."I don't see what all the drama is about," Demos said, his quiet voice filled with habitual disinterst. "He's seasick. It will pass."~Captain's Fury."

"Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy."

"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."

"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed."

"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"
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"Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself."


"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."


"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."


"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."


"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."


"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."


"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."
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