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"Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing."
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"I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days."
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"Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&WM track and onto the railbed, where the weeds and goldenrod were so high they brushed against her sides. She paused there, looking at us calmly, ears cocked forward. What I remember about that moment was the silence. No bird sang, no plane went droning overhead. If my mother had been with us, she'd have had her camera and would have been taking pictures like mad. Thinking of that made me miss her in a way I hadn't in years."
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"We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild."
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"A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon."
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"I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk..."
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"I was adored once too."
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"Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it's because we are easily bored."
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"Six books, my mother didn't want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books that I put myself inside them for safe keeping."
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"The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else."
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"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."
Humor
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
Wisdom
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
Relationship
"Nothing can make injustice just but mercy."
Justice
"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."
Attitude
"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."
Humor
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
Change
"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."
Wisdom
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
Attitude
"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."
Life
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