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“Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.”
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“The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilo fuimos desuñados, destroncados, destripados — we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separated from our identity and our history.”
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“Talking to you is only thinking to myself — made easier.”
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“ We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change.”
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“... it is when a man has to soak his biscuits in his tea that he knows he's old.”
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“Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.”
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“Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.”
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“In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.”