[b]Andre Dubus III
The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can’t have one without the other.[/b]
Okay, but does that count those who have a whole lot more of one than the other?
Dat’s what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: ‘America, the land of milk and honey.’ Bot they never tell you the milk’s gone sour and the honey’s stolen.
Don Trump will fix all that. Unless, of course, he ends up in jail.
And that’s what I wanted: obliteration. Decimation. Just an instant smear of me right out of all this rising and falling and nothing changing that feels like living.
Of course that’s only “human all too human”, right?
[b]…on one side of the page you got your costs and on the other side your benefits. All you do is mark which one is which, then you weigh one side against the other and you get your decision just like that. That’s all you ever have to do. I live by this.
But what if you don’t know the difference between a benefit and a cost? what if you’ve never been very good at telling a plus from a minus?[/b]
Yeah, what about that?
When I thought of the word “man,” I could only think of those who could defend themselves and those they loved.
Not many places better to start than there.
Different people carry different toolboxes.
One filled with words for example.