C.E. Morgan Quotes

• I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.

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  Thinking, Expression, Opposites

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• Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.

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  Choices, Style, Mastery

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• Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.

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  Struggle, Ambition, Boredom

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• When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power.

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  Rise To Power, People, Justice

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• La idea de que escribir sobre personajes de otra raza requiere pasar por un guantelete crítico, que implica disculpas y un autoexamen de naturaleza casi punitiva, como si el acto de escribir sobre la raza fuera de algún modo moralmente sospechoso, es peligrosa. Este enfoque parece culturalmente sensible, pero a menudo revela un fallo de nervios. Creo que la exigencia de que debemos hacerlo revela una especie de fascismo dentro de la izquierda, una aceptación de lo políticamente correcto con sus silencios obligatorios, que ha hecho que la gente tenga miedo de ofender o de adoptar una postura.

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  Believe, Writing, Character

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• Every aspect of the novel is - or should be - an arrow pointed towards its ultimate meaning, or a multiplicity of possible meanings. But I also value the readers' autonomy, their right to both read and misread.

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  Arrows, Should, Aspect

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• I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.

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  Pain, Revenge, Struggle

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• En última instancia, lo que quiero es una experiencia cumbre en la lectura, y eso a veces es difícil de encontrar en la ficción contemporánea. No me interesan los libros que sólo son ingeniosos y están bien ejecutados; la pulcritud no me impresiona, y no me importa una frase meramente capaz. La vida es corta; quiero una confrontación con el arte elevado. Quiero alma.

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  Art, Clever, Book

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• Love is not a feeling, but an action.

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  Amor Es, Sentimientos, Acción

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• I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the private sphere. As an artist that means training an eye on the suffering in the world, then acting on behalf of others.

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  Real, Creer, Significar

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• I think the primary gift of the animal is offered to writer and non-writer alike; they teach us about love, or attunement, which is love in action. A lot of people have closer relationships with animals than they do with other humans, because real intimacy requires both parties to consistently lean in, and animals are so good at this. They remain consistently, amazingly attuned to us, even when we fail them, and so we stay present, because we sense we're safe.

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  Real, Party, Animal

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• I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here today, because I'm a fighter. I didn't survive my life to ask permission to write my books.

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  Arte, Libro, Escritura

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• De joven me enseñaron que la extrema derecha y la extrema izquierda políticas no se sitúan en un espectro sino en un círculo, donde inevitablemente se encuentran en su extremo.

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  Circles, Political, Taught

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• En última instancia, no sé si el amor es un principio organizativo que elegimos o si es innato. Ya no estoy seguro de que la distinción me importe mucho; sólo me preocupa cómo podemos reducir el sufrimiento innecesario. Creo que eso significa aprender a amar tanto en lo micro como en lo macro; comprometerse en acciones éticas en el plano de la intimidad y la amistad, pero también en el plano vocacional a través del trabajo que elegimos en el mundo, nuestro medio de vida correcto.

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  Mean, Love Is, Thinking

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• Anyone who lives with poor health or chronic pain, or who has endured poverty - real poverty - knows what it is to live with lack and a resulting fear so incessant that it becomes thoroughly normalized, invisible in its ubiquity. If you're lucky enough to have that fear begin to ease, it's an odd experience. A stranglehold eases off your entire body, one you never fully realized was there.

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  Pain, Real, Ubiquity

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• I stared at the Ohio River every day as a child, a thing that for me is almost more symbol than river. The formation of personality is inextricable from place. It strikes me as an interesting example of dependent co-arising; land shapes the organism, which then reshapes - literally and figuratively - the land. This because of this; not that because not that. Nothing is separate, least of all the literary mind.

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  Children, Ohio, Land

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• Great literature rattles the mind and makes the body sing. It's an unmistakable, electric feeling, and too rare. That is what I want.

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  Feelings, Mind, Literature

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