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“3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.”

Country Wish Hell Responsible Neighbor Atrocities

Author:Frank Miller

“To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’ What else? It's brilliantly instead and odd.”

Giving Mind Littles Book Wish Walks Grief Half Tree Sadness Moon Speech Ordinary Shadow Bills Neighbor Curious Odd Surprising Wet Ordinary Life Telescopes Microscopes Twigs

Author:Marianne Boruch

“One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.”

Men Wish Neighbor One Man Consumption

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“Christ said "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and when asked "who is thy neighbour? went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to understand this parable as it was understood by his hearers, you should substitute "Germans and Japanese" for Samaritan. I fear my modern day Christians would resent such a substitution, because it would compel them to realize how far they have departed from the teachings of the founder of their religion.”

“In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.”

Form Wish Half Neighbor Ashamed Sad Truth Foreboding Schadenfreude

Book:Tales and sketches

Source: Tales and sketches