There Is Suffering in Every Story
- sometimes just because the protagonist is lonely
- maybe has been robbed (injured or raped)
- some vagabonds try to smuggle across the Italian border
- two girls run away from home
- how a child becomes a thief
- a woman gives birth alone on the carpet of her mobile home
- a girl is crushed to death by a truck
- another girl is raped in a communal basement
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Famous quotes containing the words there is, suffering and/or story:
“Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.”
—Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)
“It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“The oft-repeated Roman story is written in still legible characters in every quarter of the Old World, and but today, perchance, a new coin is dug up whose inscription repeats and confirms their fame. Some “Judæa Capta,” with a woman mourning under a palm tree, with silent argument and demonstration confirms the pages of history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)