We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
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Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.
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