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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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Personal Development
"When you don't know where to start,just go to a place you miss so much."
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Personal Development
"Still in my mind the old days scenario is playing OVER AND OVER."
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Personal Development
"I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."
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Personal Development
"When I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the sidewalk one December listening to the Christmas bells - I've never forgotten that moment..."
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Personal Development
"Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy."
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"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."
Work
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
Living
"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
Society
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
Truth
"In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15)."
Joy
"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."
Truth
"Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good."
Society
"It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer."
Courage
"God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves."
Morality
"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
Behavior
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