Rewriting

I would have liked to spend my life writing and rewriting the same story, in the hope of understanding it at least, and of making it understood by others.
--Ignacio Silone

Cope

We can only hope we will be able to cope with today's risk of a new totalitarianism, backed as it is by the world's last remaining ideology. As conscious democrats, we should freely resist the power of capital, which sees mankind as nothing more than something which consumes and produces.
--Günter Grass [09.21.06]

Ridiculous

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
--Thornton Wilder [12.01.04]

Provisional

We are a loose collection glued briefly into a provisional thing called self, and all such things are bound to dissolution. How could this be otherwise?
--Sallie Tisdale

Box

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
--Mary Oliver

Change

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
--Margaret Mead

World War III

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
--Marshall McLuhan (1970)

You Can

You write in order to change the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks or people look at reality, then you can change it.
--James Baldwin

Seen

A problem not seen is a problem not fixed.
--Elizabeth Warren

Sudden

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
--Madeleine L'Engle [10.26.99]

Try

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
--George Orwell

Why

To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?
--Christopher Hitchens

Yes

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future world depends.
--Wallace Stevens [02.01.07]

Note

Epstein's suicide note will be released as soon as Barr finishes writing it.
--Julie Ford

Tomato

Every day we have to wake up, confront the most upsetting shit we've ever seen, and then walk around obeying laws and saying "it's tomato season."
--Sarah Lazarus

Trap

And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant,
insufferable master.
There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught--they say--
God, when he walked on earth.
--Robinson Jeffers

Curse

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
--Hannah Arendt [11.01.10]

One Step

Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another.
--Toni Morrison (March 1995)

Look

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.
--Dave Eggers [04.02.07]

Failed

To accept the climate emergency is to admit that we have all failed, in a major way. And this is not an easy thing to do.
--Greta Thunberg

Serious

It is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in this broken world.
--Mary Oliver

Question

The only real question to be asked of another is "What are you going through?"
--Simone Weil [05.14.99]