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This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can't possibly be true.
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Bullies are just frightened people.
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And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.
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That happens in hotel rooms, people have bad dreams.
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boys. Defense attorneys for the whole crappy world." Bob's new apartment
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I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.
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She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence.
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I mention this because there is the question of how children become aware of what the world is, and how to act in it. How,
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Her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tell us who we are and what we think and what we do. A
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the way you could hear outside in the open air - when the conditions were exactly right - the corn growing in the fields of my youth.
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People, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Bob Burgess, after the tall man with the tasseled scarf turned down a side
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She felt she had figured something out too late, and that must be the way of life, to get something figured out when it was too late.
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My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
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This is a story about a mother who loves her daughter. Imperfectly. Because we all love imperfectly.
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The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.
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Traits don't change, states of mind do.
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I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer.
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It was Henry's nature to listen, and many times during the week he would say, 'Gosh, I'm awful sorry to hear that, ' or 'Say, isn't that something?
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He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.
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It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men
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People know exactly who loves them, and how much ...
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The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you!
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I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.
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I was doing what I have done for most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when they don't know they have embarrassed themselves.
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My mother did not like Unitarians; she thought they were atheists who didn't want to be left out of the fun of Christmas,
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with the group of Somali men who gathered
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It baffled her, the world. She did not want to leave it yet.
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What I mean is, this is not just a woman's story. It's what happens to a lot of us, if we are lucky enough to hear that detail and pay attention
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Stupid - this assumption people have, that things should somehow be right.
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You will have only one story," she had said. "You'll write your one story many ways. Don't ever worry about story. You have only one.
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You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.
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There is that constant judgment in this world: How are we going to make sure we do not feel inferior to another?
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So life goes on, I thought. (And now I think: It goes on, until it doesn't.)
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So - you're a writer. You're an artist.
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Each of his son's had been his favorite child.
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the young, he thought, could withstand the rigors of love.
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one of those things about getting older was knowing that so many moments weren't just moments, they were gifts.
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I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.
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No one in this world comes from nothing.
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... and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it.
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While it is said that children accept their circumstances as normal, both Vicky and I understood that we were different. We
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He thought of all the people in the world who felt they'd been saved by a city. He was one of them.
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The trees off to the side have been cut down to make a parking lot. You get used to things, he thinks, without getting used to things.
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She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are and what we think and what we do.
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Something on his, and he held up a hand to indicate
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All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)
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She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at ths age, to tell her he had pitied her for years.
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The privacy of sorrow.
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Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholicyou were made to feel guilty about everything — Elizabeth Strout
that - I would remember the view from the hospital window and be glad for the sidewalk I was walking on. To
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The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.
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I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging.
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You belong to society, you give to society.
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No ideology can protect a son from the unwelcome inheritance of his father's ambitions.
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I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy.
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You never know what attracts people to each other,
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How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right." I
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My parents were very, very, very strict.
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She always played his song because whenever she saw him, it was like moving into a warm pocket of air.
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Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)
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stopped coming home for lunch. He just stayed in his office
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the sense of apology did not go away; it was a tiring thing to carry. -
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society's been drugging its women for years
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But never mind, Olive thinks now. You move aside and make way for the new.
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Because two people can't have entirely different opinions without one of them being final.
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He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, 'Stop that,' as though he were reading her diary.
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God, I'm scared,' he said, quietly. She almost said, 'Oh, stop. I hate scared people.
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You just stood up to your mother ... I should think now you could take on the world.
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I don't think there's anybody I write about who I don't care for deeply in some way, no matter what their behavior is.
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How can people in California have problems with their feet?" asks Molly moving around Olive with a plate of sandwiches. "Don't they drive everywhere?
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I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't.
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Oh, she was a crazy woman, privately.
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She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.
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Well, widow-comforter, how is she?" Olive spoke in the dark from the bed. "Struggling," he said.
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we are free of each other, and yet not, and never will be.
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I loved New York for this gift of endless encounters.
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Because we all love imperfectly.
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But once in a while I see a child crying with the deepest of desperation, and I think it is one of the truest sounds a child can make.
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No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.
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A yearning stirred in him that was not sexual but a kind of reaching toward her simplicity of form. He
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Now, how does that feel, I've always wondered. To be known as a Pretty Nicely Girl?
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constructions, and I
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If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.
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she'd have been throwing out clamshells, most likely.
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I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.
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cell phone. He gave her more water, told her to drink it slowly, then began leading her back the way they had come; her legs were
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'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.
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So much of life seems speculation.
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Work gets done if you simply do it.
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Nothing is long ago.
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To listen to a person is not passive.
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The appetites of the body were private battles.
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She knows that loneliness can kill people - in different ways can actually make you die. (68)
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He hated dishonesty-- or lack of courage-- more than anything.
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