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1 " Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy. "
― Daniel Clausen , The Ghosts of Nagasaki
2 " In retrospect, I came to Nagasaki for the regenerative properties. The second atomic bomb blast so many years ago, which had swept up most of the city in a plutonium cloud, had made the city radioactively peace-loving. Reversing the usual cycle that turns victim into perpetrator, the people who stepped from the rubble filled their hearts with a fervent devotion to peace in all its forms.In my mind's eye I see them: wounded and dying, their lungs filled with ash and smoke. The ash sits there for some time, and when they exhale, miraculously, something akin to love comes out. "
3 " Let the bullshitters have their bullshit. You and me, we have lives to live. And once you open your mouth to respond to their bullshit--well, that's when you're knee-deep in it. "
4 " You gotta beware of the utopian train of thought, mate. That's usually the first step towards fascism. "
5 " I cannot tell you with any great certainty where I am from, what I do, or what I did, for as soon as the telling begins the things that happened change. The only thing I can tell you reliably is that soon I will be dead. The fact that I am not already dead, that I have lived on years after my heart stopped, is indeed a miracle "
6 " You know, if you leave something unresolved into winter, it has a way of dragging itself all the way into spring. "
7 " In all the years of his unremarkable life, the only remarkable thing about him was how many great literary loves he had had -- a greater accomplishment than even his own literary victories. "
― Daniel Clausen
8 " Somewhere in my mind there is a young boy that wants to rub mud on himself and run around in circles. "
9 " From the way she sits there in one of the student chairs it’s hard to tell whether she’s been enjoying the afterlife or whether she’s been waiting patiently just to get the last word in. "
10 " When you find it, you want to wrap yourself in it. This is what love is. "
11 " It’s a truth that exists in defiance of the cynicism of the world. "
12 " I’m reminded of the accumulated weight of unfinished projects. "
