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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.

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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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