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Macy's avatar

I read "Hope in the Dark" by Rebecca Solnit last year, and I keep returning to this quote:

"I say all this because hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. I say it because hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency; because hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed."

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Spike Gillespie's avatar

Well that sure was a fun one. Thanks. Can’t exactly put my finger on why the following popped into my head as I was reading but likely ‘twas tangential—the protagonist of this tale was raised to never be optimistic so’n that he’d never be disappointed. The story: This guy’s father ran a private trash collection service. The company’s motto was along these lines: Satisfaction Guaranteed or Double Your Trash Back.

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