The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.
The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.
The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.
What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.
And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.