If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
I find a certain comfort,' confesses Marinus, 'in humanity's helplessness.
The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.
Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
Cynicism can blind one to subtler virtues.
The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.
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