Fiction should be an ethically safe space, free of fancy ideas. It should be dedicated modestly to relationships or escapism or the needs of luscious voyeurs. Lydia Millet More Quotes by Lydia Millet More Quotes From Lydia Millet It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep. Lydia Millet light eye sea The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight, that somewhere in the apartment she was sleeping or eating or sitting watchfully. It was family, he guessed, more or less. Did most people want a house of living things at night, to know that in the dark around them other warm bodies slept? Such a house could even be the whole world. Lydia Millet dog home sleep We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep. Lydia Millet empathy eye needs Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity. Lydia Millet sublime grief humanity Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure. Lydia Millet sorrow grief suffering The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer. Lydia Millet grief heart sweet We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished. Lydia Millet distinguished conformity long Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken. Lydia Millet unique grace book Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum. Lydia Millet forever museums years Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound. Lydia Millet sound clouds ideas The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still. Lydia Millet rpgs opinion gun For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states. Lydia Millet wolves gray government time Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country's largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state's gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin. Lydia Millet river green home country In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States. Lydia Millet endangered-species society government Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes. Lydia Millet wildlife wilderness oil america Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism. Lydia Millet climate-change tyranny change world I think the best fiction is a form of psychological suspense, even though I don't really write in that idiom. Lydia Millet i-think best think suspense I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in. Lydia Millet walk look you sky In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was possible for the mostly women, children and old people who fell victim. Lydia Millet escape women children people I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a distance. But each grizzly I've caught sight of was as fearsome and sublime as the last. You never get used to their raw power and massive bodies, or the mysterious intelligence in their dark, close-set eyes. Lydia Millet eyes you intelligence power
