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"Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?"
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"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."

"Tolerance is another word for indifference."

"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."

"Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time."

"The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals."

"His words were coated with glorious boredom."

"James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized."

"All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more gems. The suffering is forgotten or ignored - why sorrow? The war victims aren't our people. And then the wheel turns and suddenly they are our people."

"It's only awkward if it matters."
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"We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which."

"Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother?Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."

"It was the first time she'd discovered something she really didn't want to find, and she didn't know what to do once she'd found it."

"It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't."

"You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page."
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