All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

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Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.

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Hope is a slow business.

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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

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