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Joy Kogawa Quotes: 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.
         

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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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.

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.



Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.



Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.



Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.

Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.



In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.





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