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Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. — Horace

In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust. — Joy Kogawa

People get scared when their faith turns out to be real, when their god actually turns up on their doorstep. — Athan Fletcher

Life is so short," I said sighing, "the past so long. Shouldn't we turn the page and move on?"
"The past is the future," Aunt Emily shot back — Joy Kogawa

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life. — Joy Kogawa

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents — Charles De Gaulle

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. — Agnes De Mille

Is there hell, or do we make our own on earth? — Stephen King

Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene. — Joy Kogawa

The national pastime is juiced. — Jose Canseco

From my years of teaching I know it's the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain. — Joy Kogawa

No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers. — Peter Kay

People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind. — Joy Kogawa

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back. — Ron Wood

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire. — Joy Kogawa