"The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant."
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"In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in."
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"It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice or sparrows or special TV programs that we can't see."
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"The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want."
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"A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother"
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"Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin."
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"Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life."
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"What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?"
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"Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it."
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"Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace."
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"Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose."
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