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"In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans."
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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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"The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it."
Work
"New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American."
Nostalgia
"In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans."
Nostalgia
"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter."
History
"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver."
Sex
"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."
Entertainment
"A concept is stronger than a fact."
Fact
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."
Society
"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."
Happiness
"The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply."
Food
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