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1. "If I needed your condescension, I'd ask for it." ~ Mark Slouka
2. "...like isolated apartment dwellers running the TV for company, we sense a deeper isolation beneath the babble of voices, the poverty of our communications." ~ Mark Slouka
3. "The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized, so long have we acceded to that marginalization--not to sound either defensive or naive. The humanities, done right, are the crucible within which our evolving notions of what it means to be fully human are put to the test; they teach us, incrementally, endlessly, not what to do but how to be. Their method is confrontational, their domain unlimited, their "product" not truth but the reasoned search for truth, their "success" something very much like Frost's momentary stay against confusion." ~ Mark Slouka
4. "Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to rebuild ourselves. Over time, over the course of many books, we construct a deeper, truer self." ~ Mark Slouka
5. "It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck." ~ Mark Slouka
6. "Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language." ~ Mark Slouka
7. "...like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way." ~ Mark Slouka
8. "I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys." ~ Mark Slouka
9. "Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?" ~ Mark Slouka
10. "My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the floor and wreckage in its wake." ~ Mark Slouka
11. "We grow crisp and crotchety, fully half our organs ignore our commands--whistling to themselves, as it were, while we struggle to bring them to attention--but to balance the ledger we are allowed to dwell on the past, revisit the sites of our old humiliations, reread (without the aid of spectacles) our own misjudgments. And we do, believing that it was there, in our past, that our last best chance for happiness lay hidden; that somewhere in that thicket, now dense with self-recrimination and foolishness, trickled a freshet of joy powerful enough to redeem us." ~ Mark Slouka
12. "Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning." ~ Mark Slouka
13. "Acceptance was not in my nature. Even as a young man it seemed to me that everywhere the world conspired against the heart, and though I knew the heart would lose, I couldn't bear to call it right." ~ Mark Slouka
14. "Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get on a train, you pick up a lamp, you speak, you don't. What decides why one thing gets picked to be the way it will be? Accident? Fate? Some weakness in ourselves? Forget your harps, your tin-foil angels—the only heaven worth having would be the heaven of answers." ~ Mark Slouka
15. "Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn't seem so dangerous at the time." ~ Mark Slouka
16. "Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either." ~ Mark Slouka

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In the event of a total loss of direction in life, be sure to sort our your own shit before you start telling people what to do."
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