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“Difficult to “move on” from any site of suffering if that suffering goes unacknowledged and undescribed.”

Book:Recitatif

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Recitatif

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Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison is an American novelist known for her profound portrayal of the history and culture of African Americans. Her works often explore issues of race, gender, and identity, with her most famous novels being 'The Bluest Eye' and 'Sula'. more

“All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful... If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality. There's a constant balance between those two.”

Writing Art Truth

Author:Alan Shapiro

“You’re so far out in left field you’re a dot on the horizon.””

Suffering Dark Fiction Mystery Drama Mysterious Thriller 21st Century Intrigue Fast Paced

Book:Catch .22

Source: Catch .22

“She clung to him like linguini.””

Suffering Fiction Mystery Exciting Thriller Suspense Manipulation Intrigue Investigate Deciet

Book:Catch .22

Source: Catch .22

“Last night she couldn’t keep her hands off him. This morning she’d been as cold as liquid nitrogen.””

Suffering Dark Fiction Mystery Drama Exciting Thriller 21st Century Fast Paced Decie

Book:Catch .22

Source: Catch .22

“Show me one who is sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show him me. By the gods I would fain see a Stoic. Nay you cannot show me a finished Stoic; then show me one in the moulding, one who has set his feet on the path”

Wisdom Suffering Hope Perseverance Stoicism Grit

Book:The Discourses of Epictetus : Classic Edition

Source: The Discourses of Epictetus : Classic Edition

“The daily exercise of suffering gives one the gaze of an abandoned dog and the colour of a ghost. - Fragment of a Diary [July to August]”

Suffering

Book:The Houseguest and Other Stories

Source: The Houseguest and Other Stories

“It doesn’t matter if someone drowns in a bathtub, a swimming pool, a lake, or an ocean. It doesn’t matter if someone drowns in five feet of water or a hundred. Drowning is drowning. Regardless of depth or source, your lungs still fill with water which prevents you from breathing, which prevents oxygen from being delivered to your heart, which causes you to panic and to die. No one in this world who drowns, drowns more or less than anyone else.”

Pain Suffering Depth Trauma Drowning Hurting Comparing Yourself To Others

Book:Heaven and Hurricanes

Source: Heaven and Hurricanes

“On an unseasonably warm winter's morning, I took my first life.”

Action Suffering Dark Mystery Mysterious Thriller 21st Century Intrigue Fast Paced Heist Thriller

Book:Immoral Origins

Source: Immoral Origins

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