My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.

Ellen Willis
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  2. It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays. - Audrey Niffenegger

  3. It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing. - Audrey Niffenegger

  4. Top 15 Things Money Can’t BuyTime. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity. - Roy T. Bennett

  5. One day spent with someone you love can change everything. - Mitch Albom

More Quotes By Ellen Willis
  1. Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

  2. I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep,...

  3. The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

  4. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

  5. An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

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