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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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