You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Desire is no light thing.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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