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The Callahan Chronicals <!-- [Sic] -->(1996) [originally published as Callahan and Company (1988)] "Backword", p. xii
Context: In a culture where pessimism has metastasized like slow carcinoma, that crazy Irishman was backward enough to try to raise hopes, like hothouse flowers. In an era during which even judicious use of alcohol has been increasingly bad-rapped, the man who came to be known as The Mick of Time was backward enough to think that the world can look just that essential tad better when seen through a flask, brightly. (As long as you let someone else drive you home afterward.) Above all, he — and his goofball customers — believed that shared pain is lessened, and shared Joy increased.
Now he is gone. Gone back whence he came, and we are all the poorer for it. But I refuse to say that we will not see his like again. Or his love again.
“He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.”
Source: A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty
“Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.”
Harry Belafonte and ‘The Long Road to Freedom’ YES! Magazine (2002) https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-american-now/harry-belafonte-and-the-long-road-to-freedom-20180828
Vyjayanthimala still cuts a striking figure tall
"Drug War Chronicle" (17 May 2002), as quoted in "Barr Booed for Anti-Pot Remarks in Home District Event" http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/237/barrbooed.shtml.
2000s, 2002
Part I Section XIV
Compare: Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, xv: "In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us"
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
Source: Epipsychidion (1821), l. 595
“It was glorious to see—if your heart were iron,
And you could keep from grieving at all the pain.”
Book XIII, lines 355–356
Translations, Iliad (1997)
Ricky lets his feelings be known http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/4855752.stm
St. Peter and the Angel
Oblique Prayers (1984)
Context: Delivered out of raw continual pain,
smell of darkness, groans of those others
to whom he was chained — unchained, and led
past the sleepers,
door after door silently opening —
out!
“I work for the United Nations. I go to places where enormous upheaval and pain and anguish exist.”
Interview on Larry King Live (15 October 2002) http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0210/15/lkl.00.html
Context: I work for the United Nations. I go to places where enormous upheaval and pain and anguish exist. And a lot of it exists based upon American policy. Whom we support, whom we support as heads of state, what countries we've helped to overthrow, what leaders we've helped to diminish because they did not fit the mold we think they should fit, no matter how ill advised that thought may be.