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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.
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The language of her grief is silence. She has learned it well, its idioms, its nuances. Over the years, silence within her small body has grown large and powerful.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Joy Kogawa
Born:
June 6, 1935
(age 89)
Bio:
Joy Nozomi Kogawa is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent.
Known for:
Obasan (1981)
Naomi's road (1986)
The rain ascends (1995)
Itsuka (1992)
Naomi's Tree (2008)
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