Cartoon by Saul Steinberg.
Panel by Jaime Hernandez from Love and Rockets: New Stories #5, coming next month.
In her final interview, Clarice was asked if writing had any effect on the outside, political world. “It changes nothing,” she insisted, again and again. “It changes nothing. I write without the hope that anything I write can change anything at all. It changes nothing.
benjamin moser, why this world: a biography of clarice lispector (via isabelthespy)
For much of my adult life, I wanted to hide from doing anything. If you don’t do anything, and if you don’t make any decisions, then you make fewer mistakes, and you’re taking fewer risks.
