Janet Frame quote — “All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certain…”

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All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force... All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land..

Janet Frame Janet Frame: An Autobiography exile writing

Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural Histor… food

May all beings be free of pretended happiness. May all beings find their deepest lie. May all beings see the nature of their inner turmoil. May all beings realize what they are not…

Christopher Zzenn Loren Unspirituality: Permission to Be Human atheism religion spirituality unspirituality

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppr…

Simone Weil