Joy Kogawa quotes
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“People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.”
-- Joy KogawaSource : Joy Kogawa (1983). “Obasan”, Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books
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“Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.”
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“Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.”
-- Joy Kogawa
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Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
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“The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.”
Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”
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“My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.”
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