Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of...

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of...

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on...

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid...

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

A desert is a place without expectation.

A desert is a place without expectation.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed...

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed...