Thursday, November 21, 2002
�To many men� the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.�
- George Steiner (b. 1929), French-born American critic and novelist: �Has Truth a Future?�, Bronowski Memorial Lecture, 1978.
�A poet�s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.�
- Salman Rushdie (b. 1947), Indian-born British author: quoted in �The Independent� (London), February 18, 1989.
�It is terrible to destroy a person�s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.�
- Doris Lessing (b.1919), British novelist: �The Grass is Singing�, 1950.
�There are two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.�
- Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), American poet: in conversation with James Baldwin, London, November 4, 1971, published in �A Dialogue�, 1973.
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