“When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.”

Je Suis Comme Je Suis - I Am What I Am

Biff
Source: Death of a Salesman (1949)

What Will Get Us Ready (1944)
Context: I want to make perfectly clear the act that the world is in the fringe, in the penumbra, of a tremendous Revolution, with a big R. We have called it a war and the fighting has been with mechanized weapons, but we shall soon be face to face with awesome situations against which weapons are vain things, as ineffective as Canute’s futile attempts to stop the irresistible tides of the ocean. Nothing is ever going to be the same again and we cannot assume our Quakerism is to be unaffected by the euroclydon that is in front of us. The time has passed for “the complacent assumption of an unchanged world.” This situation which I see coming — though I am afraid most Americans are looking forward fondly to a new period of “normalcy” — this situation makes it more urgent than ever to have our Quaker Society inwardly prepared to be a purveyor of light and leading when the crisis comes. The Christian faith of the ages will be tested more severely than in any former Revolution, because it will be confronted with its supreme enemy, a completely economic, materialistic, and mechanistic interpretation of the word and of human life.

Source: Aleph

Talib Judge, p. 366
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

ES Magazine, 13 Jan 2012, pages 26-29

Source: The Book of Disquiet

Source: Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

Source: Into the Wild