The Writing Curator @writingcurator

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The Writing Curator @writingcurator

2 months ago

Dostoevsky's creative work is always bound to a feverish interrogation that bears on the creator himself and on his relations with others. The characters are always the X's and Y's of equations that are concerned to define these relations. —René Girard

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The Writing Curator @writingcurator

2 months ago

We don't always realize our biases. We don't realize our contradictions, or how much of our truths are arbitrary. Which brings me to this dialogue: Bedap: Where, then, is Truth? Tiring: In the hill one happens to be sitting on. —The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Writing Curator @writingcurator

2 months ago

But to master [the dialectic of pride] something other than intelligence is required. It requires a victory over pride itself. —René Girard

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2 months ago

Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my innermost heart. —The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe

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2 months ago

To become aware of pride and its dialectic is to renounce the cutting up of reality and to rise above the division of particular branches of knowledge toward the unity of a religious vision, the only vision that is universal. —René Girard

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The Writing Curator @writingcurator

2 months ago

We often settle for the best understanding of our thoughts that we perceive others to be capable of.

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2 months ago

The chief duty of a narrative sentence is to lead to the next sentence—to keep the story going. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Writing Curator @writingcurator

2 months ago

You can go home again... so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been. —The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Writing Curator @writingcurator

2 months ago

I had compassion for her and she inclined toward me—it was for me that she had compassion. You have never known her; at each instant something original, something wise, spiritual, but also paradoxical, infinitely good, truly chivalrous—a knight in woman's dress. —Dostoyevsky

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The Writing Curator @writingcurator

2 months ago

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on. —The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Writing Curator @writingcurator

2 months ago

Shevek: You could not seriously believe that we had no religious capacity? That we could do physics while we were cut off from the profoundest relationship man has with the cosmos? —The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Writing Curator @writingcurator

2 months ago

Alexey Ivanovich: Great ideas do not proceed so frequently from greatness of intellect, as from elevation of taste and feeling. —The Eternal Husband, Dostoevsky