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Sandra The Old Woman in a Van
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The truth is that I am more afraid of living a life of cowardice, of allowing any anxiety over prospective harm to keep me from my convictions. I can live with the awareness that someone might harm me. I am not so sure that I am brave
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“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”
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“the first step in liquidating a people . . . is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.”
― Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
― Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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