People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death. - Dionne Brand

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When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people`s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you`re doing the work of our adversaries for them.

Dionne Brand

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

Believe, Inevitability Of Death, Passion, Rages, Uncontrollable

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Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.

Book, Eye, Leaving, Moving, Turning

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

Arrivants, Cities, Collect, Lost, People

I felt the unordinary romance of
women who love women for the first time.

Firsts, Love, Romance, Sexuality, Women

If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they’ve been. If I see a city I see it’s living ghostliness—the stray looks, the dying hands. I see it’s needs and its discomforts locked in apartments.

Air, Apartments, Cities, City, Discomforts, Hands

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Communication, Fashion, Fashions, Language, Reinvention

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When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people`s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you`re doing the work of our adversaries for them.

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Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

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I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.

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Edmund Burke

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

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