"It's the way he says my name: like music."
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"We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light."
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"I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?"
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"If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now."
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"The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my throat and danced onto and out of my lips before I could think about it, or stop it. The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes."
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"We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another."
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"Something aches at the very core of me, something ancient and deep and stronger than words: the filament that joins each of us to the root of existence, that ancient thing unfurling and resisting and grappling, desperately, for a foothold, a way to stay here, breathe, keep going."
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"It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line."
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"The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient."
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"In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked."
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"Religion will never show the way."
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"The writer works in a lonely way."
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"If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour."
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"I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy."
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"Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other."
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"As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra."
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"You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live."
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"By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities."
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"You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death"
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"The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage."
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