25 Quotes & Sayings By Dauglas Dauglas

Dauglas Dauglas is the author of several novels, including The Death of Mr. Larkin. His collection of short stories, The Death of Mr. Larkin and Other Stories, was published in 2013 by Princeton University Press Read more

His work has appeared in multiple literary journals, including Five Points (UK), Conjunctions (US), Quarterly West (US), and others. He is also the author of two poetry collections: The Last of the Poems of William Blake (2010) and Hotel of Memories (2011). Dauglas lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his wife and children.

FEAR IS PURGATORYI have died many times And my episodes...
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FEAR IS PURGATORYI have died many times And my episodes of death Gave me the power Over the greatest fears The fear of life The fear of self Dauglas Dauglas
Maybe men who still have the cave-man expectations of women...
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Maybe men who still have the cave-man expectations of women should be sent back into caves. A lot of women will readily volunteer to build such caves free of charge. Dauglas Dauglas
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Human hearts are made to bleed at the sight a precious item destroyed, irrespective of who owns the item. Dauglas Dauglas
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There is no pain in losing what you never had. Dauglas Dauglas
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Some say your whole life appears before you like a TV when someone is about to shoot you, but the reality is you barely have any brain control beyond thinking about the muzzle and the finger on the trigger. Dauglas Dauglas
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Life is like the wind on the ocean; if it is against you, it doesn’t really matter what direction it comes from or what direction it blows. It also doesn’t matter what you do or fail to do. So you are better off doing whatever you want. Dauglas Dauglas
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POVERTY CRIME When you push people Into the throes of poverty They tend to think their value low And so do they yours They will not think it grave To lose their low valued lives And so will they not yours Dauglas Dauglas
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Everyone’s got a little devil inside them, I’ve just learned to control mine that’s why you’ve not seen it yet; I advise you to keep yours under control before it ruins you. Dauglas Dauglas
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In a state of anomie, the absence of justice becomes the panacea for justice Dauglas Dauglas
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The Dutch Reformed Church was the state church of the apartheid regime and a fervent supporter of apartheid; it inspired and condoned rape, abduction and murder. Dauglas Dauglas
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MY DEAREST MY EVER CRUSH I couldn’t have wished anything more Than that the spaces between my fingers Were filled with yours As I strolled and sample the best of NYC today I wish that every wish become real, and all dreams true Because in my dreams I am always with you Our friends both envy us and rejoice for us We are ever madly in love and think less of who cares I can’t wait to see you again True Love . Dauglas Dauglas
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One would expect Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, who is said to have studied history, to know better and act better, but he too rejects all advice and criticism and runs around obliviously in a coach plastered with pictures of his grandmother abusing her captives, including women and children. You might imagine the bigoted Donald Trump to be riding a coach like that in a mock presidential parade in his dreams, but certainly not a twenty first century Dutch royal. I wonder if he ever considered how their Calvinist pomposity affected the psyche of black and white children. Dauglas Dauglas
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MOUNT PLAASMOORDEIf ever you visit South AfricaAnd do Leave the brilliant beaches of Cape Town for a moment Climb Mount Plaasmoorde Witkruis monument And you’ll see the victims of apartheid White crosses marking a thousand white victims Planted in the earth of a million black victims They lie dissolved in the humus of the soils They were too many to have their own marked graves Too many to build black crosses for And just too hard to forget about Because they make the soil under your feet black . Dauglas Dauglas
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How remorseless must one be find pleasure in riding a Wilhelmina golden coach in the 21st century. Dauglas Dauglas
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How could the eagle-eyed politicians of The Hague, who specialized in pointing out the tiniest specks in other people’s eyes, overlook someone riding a racist coach in their own neighborhood? Dauglas Dauglas
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SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVILNow please let me introduce myself I’m the wealthy charming man Been here on earth for many, many years Many hearts, faiths and souls I stole I was around and watched Jesus ChristHad his faith, doubt and pain Conned goddamn Pontus PilateTo wash his hands and doom his soul Thrilled to meet you Do you guess my name Thought I’m in hell but no I’m right here That’s the puzzling nature of my game . Dauglas Dauglas
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I DREAM OF A CHARCOAL CHALKY AFRICAI am as black as charcoal But that is only my skin color I don’t need to see hacked white bodies To know that we are the same on the inside I feel the same anguish and disgust for the innocent Murdered black South Africans during apartheid Murdered white South Africans post-apartheid We might not be there to fight apartheid era atrocities But we are here now and must prevent post-apartheid atrocities Murdering innocent whites will not bring back murdered blacks I challenge you to search online now Google ‘South African farm murders’ And see if you can look at the gruesome pictures Of innocent children, women and men Do we need more people to be horribly hacked to death? Before we stop the divisive rhetoric of the extreme left? We made a mistake letting apartheid drag on so long But must we repeat that mistake with post-apartheid massacres? Some of these murdered whites fought against apartheid These murdered children didn’t even know about apartheid Don’t take away your eyes now! No, don’t you dare take your eyes off those pictures! The real apartheid criminals are rich and well protected Killing these innocent people is not justice It is inhuman; it is cowardice Don’t look away and don’t hold back the tears It is not only a cry for white victims It is not only a cry for black victims It is a cry for a better South AfricaA cry for a richer, charcoal, chalky Africa . Dauglas Dauglas
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Did you know that even 50 years after all other countries had abolished slavery, the Netherlands refused to? Dauglas Dauglas
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Just as the Netherlands was the last country to abolish slavery, they are still the last one opulently celebrating racism; the English had to force the Dutch to abolish slavery in the late 19th century and now the US and the UN are forcing them to stop celebrating bigotry in the 21st century Dauglas Dauglas
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Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is the man who had such a long record of infamy the devil would be blue with envy. Dauglas Dauglas
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Just as the world was quiet when the atrocities of apartheid were being committed, so it was when the farm murders took place. Perhaps the threshold of the world’s conscience was far higher and the murdered had to number in the hundreds of thousands before they were recognized by the international community. Dauglas Dauglas
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The press can’t do shit about corruption in Africa without the masses. Everybody knows the offices that ask for bribes and everybody continues to pay. So reporting an incident of corruption in the media is like announcing that the sun rises in the morning. Dauglas Dauglas
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GHOSTS IN THE MINDThere are no ghosts among the living The only real ghosts exist in our minds So fear not the dead but the living Because the living can harm but not their ghost Have you ever seen a dead man risen? Don’t you see that nobody comes from the grave? It’s because the dead are nice to each other Even the vilest repent, and are kind to their neighbors Each one content with the land of their lying . Dauglas Dauglas
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It appeared the more religious and older men got, the more insatiable their appetite grew for teenage hymens; a short sighted, selfish, entitled and wicked appetite at that by the kind of men who were disillusioned enough to believe that the world revolved around their poles. Dauglas Dauglas