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The constant happiness is curiosity.
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The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
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Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.
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Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
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The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.
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Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
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Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
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His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.
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Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.
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People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
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Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
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I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
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She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever.
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Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.
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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
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It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
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That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
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The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
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