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Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

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Alison Hawthorne Deming

A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such. " And I say, "That's why you have to write. " You don't wait until you know, because then who cares - it's static.

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I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

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I've been accused of darkness by my inner light.

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As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.

Becomes, Begins, Death, Deaths, Fall, Thinking

It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.

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There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One gift we as writers give to the world is to bear witness to these landscapes and species as we have experienced them.

Giving, Landscapes, Witness, World, Writers, Years
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