There is an aspect to political activism that involves an incredible sense of urgency, people thinking, 'I absolutely know what is right,' and spirituality advocates that people step back, reflect, and approach the world with a sense of mystery--that maybe they don't know exactly what is right. This is a good quality to bring into activism, to look at some of the deeper issues that way.
-Radical Middle Manifesto: unattributed quote in a friend’s bathroom
All in the same unhappy families and in one minute of making them happy again. As Joubert said Those who never back down love themselves more than they love the truth: I was Wrong ;-) 3 most important words in a relationship
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Madmen's Street
He may owe his survival to two factors: a residual respect for literature in his country, and the fact that he and Hoxha both came from Gjirokastër; in fact they came from the same street, the Catherine Watson version, "Madmen's Street." "It was a strange coincidence," he says, "we were both writers; well, he thought he was a writer. For years we had the same translator."
Being critical of a regime is a normal state of affairs for a writer. The only act of resistance possible in a classic Stalinist regime was to write -- or you could go to a meeting and say something very courageous, and then be shot
I had an agent once who told me that he loved my memoir, but he thought it would be better as fiction. Ach, how surreal, same week my friend had the opposite happen, an agent wrote he loved his fiction book, but wished it was a memoir ;-)
• Kadare was a participant in Hoxha's madness [Much like political blogs, literary blogs have made pseudo-celebrities of their creators while offering alternatives to the mainstream press. Their breathless late-night posts--part literary gossip, part book club chatter, part critical rant--discuss the books that aren't reviewed in The New York Times. The result? While they're not going to rival Oprah's Book Club Literary Blogs ; What's That You're Reading? Book Start ]
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