Quotes by Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations

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The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized — Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible. — Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties. — Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices — Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of se — Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers — Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
We're angry about this, upset about that, but who has the time to do anything anymore? There are those reports to report — Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations
I distrust the perpetually busy, always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The — Mark Slouka, Essays from the Nick of Time: Reflections and Refutations