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"You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn't, with lotion, polish, and kindness."
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"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it."
"Just handle the books gently and you'll get along fine."
"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
"I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong."
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"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
"Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus."
"I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head."
"It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going."
"There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk."
"When you don't have enough or you run out, you feel in your core that the leak has begun and there will be no end to the leakage. And this makes you feel like a chump. Whereas having some money gives you the conviction that you're not naked in the howling wind, even though you basically are, existentially."
"And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped."
"Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them."
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