Russell Banks Quotes

Later, I Learned That People Thought I Was Being Courageous. Not So. There Were Selfish Reasons For My Behavior. I Shoved Everyone Away And Kept More Or Less To Myself, Silent, Stone-faced, Although Continuing Nonetheless To Help The Other Men, As We Received One Child After Another From The Divers And Wrapped Them In Blankets And Dispatched Them In Stretchers Up The Steep Slope To The Road And The Waiting Ambulances, As If By Doing That I Could Somehow Prolong This Part Of The Nightmare And Postpone Waking Up To What I Knew Would Be The Inescapable And Endless Reality Of It. No One Spoke. Somehow, At The Bottom, I Did Not Want This Awful Work To End. That's Not Courage.

Russell Banks Quotes: Later, I Learned That People Thought I Was Being Courageous. Not So. There Were Selfish Reasons For My Behavior. I

Russell Banks Quotes: Later, I Learned That People Thought I Was Being Courageous. Not So. There Were Selfish Reasons For My Behavior. I

Russell Banks Quotes: Later, I Learned That People Thought I Was Being Courageous. Not So. There Were Selfish Reasons For My Behavior. I

Russell Banks Quotes: Later, I Learned That People Thought I Was Being Courageous. Not So. There Were Selfish Reasons For My Behavior. I

Russell Banks Quotes: Later, I Learned That People Thought I Was Being Courageous. Not So. There Were Selfish Reasons For My Behavior. I

Russell Banks Quotes: Later, I Learned That People Thought I Was Being Courageous. Not So. There Were Selfish Reasons For My Behavior. I

Russell Banks Quotes: Later, I Learned That People Thought I Was Being Courageous. Not So. There Were Selfish Reasons For My Behavior. I

Russell Banks Quotes: Later, I Learned That People Thought I Was Being Courageous. Not So. There Were Selfish Reasons For My Behavior. I

Russell Banks Quotes: Later, I Learned That People Thought I Was Being Courageous. Not So. There Were Selfish Reasons For My Behavior. I

Russell Banks Quotes: Later, I Learned That People Thought I Was Being Courageous. Not So. There Were Selfish Reasons For My Behavior. I

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