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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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"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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"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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"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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"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."
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"Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which involves both expansion and shrinkage, as some parts of us develop and others must be allowed to disappear...Rigidity never works; we end up being the wrong size for our world."
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"I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking."
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"The wider we read the freer we become."
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"It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books-not part of me, all of me-and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be."
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"You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there."
Life
"Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?"
Ethics
"Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuries."
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"I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice."
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"The free man never thinks of escape."
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