“There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.”
Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin
Source: The Blind Assassin
“Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.”
Source: This is Where I Leave You
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“Who stunned the dirt into noise?
Ask the mole, he knows.”
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The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
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Ask the mole, he knows.
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Source: This is Where I Leave You
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Variant: Because you are alive, everything is possible.
Source: Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
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Ray Charles (1930–2004) American musician
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk (2007) by Larry Chang and Roderick Terry, p. 365
