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The lake water was reinventing the forest and the white moon above it, and wolves lapped up the cold reflection of the sky.


Karen Russell


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We sang at the chapel annexed to the home every morning. We understood that this was the humans' moon, the place for howling beyond purpose. Not for mating, not for hunting, not for fighting, not for anything but the sound itself. And we'd howl along with the choir, hurling every pitted thing within us at the stained glass.


Karen Russell


#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

I ignored her and continued down the hall. I had only four more hours to perfect the Sausalito. I was worried only about myself. By that stage, I was no longer certain of how the pack felt about anything.


Karen Russell


#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

On Sundays, the pretending felt almost as natural as nature. The chapel was our favorite place. Long before we could understand what the priest was saying, the music instructed us in how to feel.


Karen Russell


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The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly, is to discover that the instrument is transformed by the music.


George Dardess


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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


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Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.


Publilius Syrus


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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.


Barbra Streisand


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Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.


Philip Warren Anderson


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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.


Simone de Beauvoir


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