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How to Be Good

Name: How to Be Good
ISBN: 1573229326

Finalist, 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dorianne Laux's poetry is a poetry of risk; it goes to the very edge of extinction to find the hard facts that need to be sung. What We Carry includes poems of survival, poems of he

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“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”

— Nick Hornby, amazon.com

Tagged: human, Love, Human Nature, status, Proving something

“You don’t ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It’s all about survival; it’s all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in…”

— Nick Hornby, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Helping Others, Sympathize, Empathy