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He can find no way to say what so badly needs saying. Our home has been broken into. Our lives are being endangered. The law allows for all necessary force against unlawful and imminent harm.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
In poetry you have to see language as both music and content.
Walter Mosley • This Year You Write Your Novel
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There’s this thing that happens, let’s say at school where a bunch of guys are in the bathroom, at the urinal, laughing about some dork that made an anus of himself in gym. You’re all basically nice guys, right? You know right from wrong, and would not in a million years be brutal to the poor guy’s face. And then it happens: the dork was in the shi
... See moreBarbara Kingsolver • Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
This, I think, is another reason why Updike has so many detractors. Ever since F.R. Leavis wrote The Great Tradition , there has been a school of literary criticism that has demanded that great novelists also be great moralists: that the job of the writer is not just to reflect the world but to tell it the difference between right and wrong.
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John Updike: Tedious Suburbanite or Literary Great?
— Ross Gay 🌹 The system has failed us again. Or, maybe it is working exactly as it was designed.
instagram.comIn this mirror one can see the terrifying nature of force, of this ancient human drive to turn others into things, which will never disappear, no matter how many smart professors comfortably say otherwise over coffee tables. Simone Weil knew we desperately need a clear mirror to deal with the horror of force in its most ghastly expression, which is... See more
Antigone • To Love Sorrowfully: Poetry and War
Carla Sofia Ferreira (@csferreira08), with one of my favorite poems of all time https://t.co/geqSmu6AKH