"We gave up everything just to sit at your table."
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"I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book."
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"Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you."
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"There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently."
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"For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness."
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"And not to serve for a table-talk."
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"Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead."
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"My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts."
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"I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day."
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