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title: "271 Kitchen table Quotes by 236 authors"
description: "Browse 271 Kitchen table quotes by 236 authors. Discover the best Kitchen table sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Here she is at her kitchen table, fingering a jigsaw of thalidomide ginger, thinking about the arthritis in her hands.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-raine/here-she-is-at-her-kitchen-table-fingering-a-jigsaw-of-thalidomide/)

[Craig Raine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-raine/)

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> [Health care is one of the top kitchen table issues in Nevada.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacky-rosen/health-care-is-one-of-the-top-kitchen-table-issues-in-nevada/)

[Jacky Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacky-rosen/)

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> [You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adlai-e-stevenson/you-know-you-really-can-t-beat-a-household-commodity-the-ketchup/)

[Adlai E. Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adlai-e-stevenson/)

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> [I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kirstie-alley/i-had-the-halfway-house-i-can-t-tell-how-many-nights-i-spent-around/)

[Kirstie Alley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kirstie-alley/)

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> [“Are you alone?” “No, I’ve got the local cricket team with me ready to have hot sex on your kitchen table.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/are-you-alone-no-i-ve-got-the-local-cricket-team-with-me-ready-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [ Sometimes \[genius\] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-gladwell/sometimes-genius-is-just-the-thing-that-emerges-after-twenty-years-of/)

[Malcolm Gladwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-gladwell/)

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> [“some he hadn’t. He found an old family photo album in the living room credenza. He sat at the kitchen table and”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eriq-la-salle/some-he-hadn-t-he-found-an-old-family-photo-album-in-the-living-room/)

[Eriq La Salle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eriq-la-salle/)

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> [I like my porn like I like my food; homemade and sometimes on the kitchen table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikhil-saluja/i-like-my-porn-like-i-like-my-food-homemade-and-sometimes-on-the/)

[Nikhil Saluja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikhil-saluja/)

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> [Most successful businesses in the country were started on a kitchen table. As long as people have needs unmet or problems unsolved,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-tracy/most-successful-businesses-in-the-country-were-started-on-a-kitchen/)

[Brian Tracy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-tracy/)

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> [All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-collins/all-i-can-think-of-is-the-emaciated-bodies-of-children-on-our-kitchen/)

[Suzanne Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-collins/)

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> [As an object itself, to me, books today are such a rare entity - I want mine to be something where, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zac-posen/as-an-object-itself-to-me-books-today-are-such-a-rare-entity-i-want/)

[Zac Posen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zac-posen/)

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> [I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/i-started-writing-at-the-kitchen-table-after-midnight-it-took-ten/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [“We said all this in my kitchen, drinking coffee, sitting at my kitchen table, in those low, intense voices we used for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/we-said-all-this-in-my-kitchen-drinking-coffee-sitting-at-my-kitchen/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [“I didn’t love her but I did steal for her. I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-d-james-2/i-didn-t-love-her-but-i-did-steal-for-her-i-learned-early-and-at-that/)

[P.D. James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-d-james-2/)

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> [“He’d given me something. Something precious. Making me not feel like a stupid slut who’d let a stranger fuck her on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/he-d-given-me-something-something-precious-making-me-not-feel-like-a/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [My very earliest memories are of watching my father study - he had his stack of law books on the kitchen table…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ketanji-brown-jackson/my-very-earliest-memories-are-of-watching-my-father-study-he-had-his/)

[Ketanji Brown Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ketanji-brown-jackson/)

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> [When I'm writing in my bedroom, in a bar, at my kitchen table or wherever, I'm conjuring it all up on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-tarantino/when-i-m-writing-in-my-bedroom-in-a-bar-at-my-kitchen-table-or/)

[Quentin Tarantino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-tarantino/)

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> [The idea of a family sitting round the kitchen table and carefully planning their future family size based on the certainty of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lammy/the-idea-of-a-family-sitting-round-the-kitchen-table-and-carefully/)

[David Lammy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lammy/)

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> [How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/how-big-are-souls-anyway-asked-coraline-the-other-mother-sat-down-at/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [“More boys need that role model and that choices. As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheryl-sandberg/more-boys-need-that-role-model-and-that-choices-as-more-women-lean-in/)

[Sheryl Sandberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheryl-sandberg/)

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> [I eat bags and bags of cashews. I've got them in the kitchen, and about ten feet away I've got another bowl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-franti/i-eat-bags-and-bags-of-cashews-i-ve-got-them-in-the-kitchen-and-about/)

[Michael Franti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-franti/)

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> [“The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-christopher/the-kitchen-table-is-where-we-mark-milestones-divulge-dreams-bury/)

[Doris Christopher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-christopher/)

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> [“Hephzibah normally left the dishes until the next day. Piled up in the sink so that it was near impossible to fill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-jacobson/hephzibah-normally-left-the-dishes-until-the-next-day-piled-up-in-the/)

[Howard Jacobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-jacobson/)

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> [What happens at the average church or synagogue or mosque is that I don't know many priests or ministers or rabbis who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-lear/what-happens-at-the-average-church-or-synagogue-or-mosque-is-that-i/)

[Norman Lear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-lear/)

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> [“I asked him did he really love New York or was he just wearing the shirt. He smiled, like he was nervous.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-asked-him-did-he-really-love-new-york-or-was-he-just-wearing-the/)

[Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/)

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> [“When I approached and told her the key-maker wasn’t there she cursed filthily and threw something hard against the step, shouting, “What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/when-i-approached-and-told-her-the-key-maker-wasn-t-there-she-cursed/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

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> [“At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-marra/at-the-kitchen-table-she-examined-the-glass-of-ice-each-cube-was/)

[Anthony Marra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-marra/)

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> [“That's the thing," Jo says. "You think you know what you're in for. I mean, you tell yourself that, of course, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allison-winn-scotch/that-s-the-thing-jo-says-you-think-you-know-what-you-re-in-for-i-mean/)

[Allison Winn Scotch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allison-winn-scotch/)

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> [“And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-roth/and-since-we-don-t-just-forget-things-because-they-don-t-matter-but/)

[Philip Roth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-roth/)

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> [“I know now with blind certainty that no matter what, eventually marriage is just two financially interdependent strangers staring across the kitchen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-finnamore/i-know-now-with-blind-certainty-that-no-matter-what-eventually/)

[Suzanne Finnamore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-finnamore/)

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> [“...we go through life with a generalized sense that everybody is wrong except us. And since we don't just forget things because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-roth/we-go-through-life-with-a-generalized-sense-that-everybody-is-wrong/)

[Philip Roth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-roth/)

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> [Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-lamott/thirty-years-ago-my-older-brother-who-was-ten-years-old-at-the-time/)

[Anne Lamott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-lamott/)

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> [“If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lemony-snicket/if-you-have-ever-peeled-an-onion-then-you-know-that-the-first-thin/)

[Lemony Snicket](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lemony-snicket/)

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> [“The plane banked, and he pressed his face against the cold window. The ocean tilted up to meet him, its dark surface…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rupert-thomson/the-plane-banked-and-he-pressed-his-face-against-the-cold-window-the/)

[Rupert Thomson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rupert-thomson/)

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> [“I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-know-more-about-my-father-than-i-used-to-know-i-know-he-wanted-to/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [“So when people ask you where you're from, you won't have a one-word answer for them. Some people, the kind who use…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hari-kunzru/so-when-people-ask-you-where-you-re-from-you-won-t-have-a-one-word/)

[Hari Kunzru](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hari-kunzru/)

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> [“The first time I was ever called ugly, I was thirteen. It was a rich friend of my brother Carlton's over to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathryn-stockett/the-first-time-i-was-ever-called-ugly-i-was-thirteen-it-was-a-rich/)

[Kathryn Stockett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathryn-stockett/)

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> [“Last fall, I was sitting at the kitchen table of two friends who have been together since 1972. They tell me a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-sheffield/last-fall-i-was-sitting-at-the-kitchen-table-of-two-friends-who-have/)

[Rob Sheffield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-sheffield/)

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> [“How do you know when you're There, I had once wondered. Maybe you're lucky enough to notice the moment it's happening to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-hockley/how-do-you-know-when-you-re-there-i-had-once-wondered-maybe-you-re/)

[Julie Hockley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-hockley/)

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> [“My Father Comes Home From Work" My father comes home from work sweating through layers of bleached cotton t-shirts sweating through his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-brinson-curiel/my-father-comes-home-from-work-my-father-comes-home-from-work/)

[Barbara Brinson Curiel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-brinson-curiel/)

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                        "text": "How big are souls anyway?\" asked Coraline. The other mother sat down at the kitchen table and leaned against the back wall, saying nothing. She picked at her teeth with a long crimson-varnished fingernail, then she tapped the finger, gently, tap-tap-tap against the polished black surface of her black button eyes.",
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                        "text": "I eat bags and bags of cashews. I've got them in the kitchen, and about ten feet away I've got another bowl on the kitchen table. In my backpack, I've always got a bag of cashews. I started eating them in the airports because that's the one food that you can find in every airport that's actually nutritious.",
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                        "text": "“When I approached and told her the key-maker wasn’t there she cursed filthily and threw something hard against the step, shouting, “What am I supposed to do with this now?” It bounced away. I waited while she stormed away and when she’d left I got onto all fours and found what she’d discarded. It was a bit of some engine. It looked like a heart, I remember that. I put it on the kitchen table. When, hours later, my father returned, he put down his heavy bags at the sight of it. “A woman brought it,” I said. He picked it up and turned it over. “She threw it away and went.” “Whatever this came from,” he said, “what she wants is a key to make it start again.” “Can’t she just put it back in?” I said.”",
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                        "text": "“At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains, and belatedly she understood that this was how a loved one disappeared. Despite the shock wave of walking into an empty flat, the absence isn’t immediate, more a fade from the present tense you shared, a melting into the mast, not an erasure but a conversion in form, from presence to memory, from solid to liquid, and the person you once touched runs over your skin, now in sheets down your back, and you may bathe, may sink, may drown in the memory, but your fingers cannot hold it.”",
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                        "text": "“That's the thing,\" Jo says. \"You think you know what you're in for. I mean, you tell yourself that, of course, it's not going to be wine and roses and all of that bullshit for the rest of your life, but then, one day, you wake up, and your fucking husband has morphed into someone whom you barely recognize. And you sit there and you stare at him while he scratches his balls through his underwear at the kitchen table, and you think, 'This is totally not what I signed up for. I mean, who knows if I even love this ball-scratching, foul-breathed man?' And then you wonder if you love him more out of habit than out of anything else.\" She chews the inside of her lip and considers. \"And I guess from there, all bets are off.”",
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                        "text": "“I know now with blind certainty that no matter what, eventually marriage is just two financially interdependent strangers staring across the kitchen table at each other. They have backpacks slung across their bodies, containing their sexual and romantic history and unresolved issues and family memories. And there´s nothing but cold cereal, because the days of flaky croissants and foamy cappuccino are over. Reality reclines on top of the refrigerator, leering down with a wry yet tender expression. And one day it all just collapses and the backpacks are hauled away to another kitchen table.”",
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                        "text": "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, \"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.",
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                        "text": "“If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen table and thousands of tears in your eyes, sorry that you ever started peeling in the first place and wishing that you had left the onion alone to wither away on the shelf of the pantry while you went on with your life, even if that meant never again enjoying the complicated and overwhelming taste of this strange and bitter vegetable. In this way, the story of the Baudelaire orphans is like an onion, and if you insist on reading each and every thin, papery layer in A Series of Unfortunate Events, your only reward will be 170 chapters of misery in your library and countless tears in your eyes. Even if you have read the first twelve volumes of the Baudelaires' story, it is not too late to stop peeling away the layers, and to put this book back on the shelf to wither away while you read something less complicated and overwhelming. The end of this unhappy chronicle is like its bad beginning, as each misfortune only reveals another, and another, and another, and only those with the stomach for this strange and bitter tale should venture any farther into the Baudelaire onion. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.”",
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                        "text": "“The plane banked, and he pressed his face against the cold window. The ocean tilted up to meet him, its dark surface studded with points of light that looked like constellations, fallen stars. The tourist sitting next to him asked him what they were. Nathan explained that the bright lights marked the boundaries of the ocean cemeteries. The lights that were fainter were memory buoys. They were the equivalent of tombstones on land: they marked the actual graves. While he was talking he noticed scratch-marks on the water, hundreds of white gashes, and suddenly the captain's voice, crackling over the intercom, interrupted him. The ships they could see on the right side of the aircraft were returning from a rehearsal for the service of remembrance that was held on the ocean every year. Towards the end of the week, in case they hadn't realised, a unique festival was due to take place in Moon Beach. It was known as the Day of the Dead... ...When he was young, it had been one of the days he most looked forward to. Yvonne would come and stay, and she'd always bring a fish with her, a huge fish freshly caught on the ocean, and she'd gut it on the kitchen table. Fish should be eaten, she'd said, because fish were the guardians of the soul, and she was so powerful in her belief that nobody dared to disagree. He remembered how the fish lay gaping on its bed of newspaper, the flesh dark-red and subtly ribbed where it was split in half, and Yvonne with her sleeves rolled back and her wrists dipped in blood that smelt of tin. It was a day that abounded in peculiar traditions. Pass any candy store in the city and there'd be marzipan skulls and sugar fish and little white chocolate bones for 5 cents each. Pass any bakery and you'd see cakes slathered in blue icing, cakes sprinkled with sea-salt.If you made a Day of the Dead cake at home you always hid a coin in it, and the person who found it was supposed to live forever. Once, when she was four, Georgia had swallowed the coin and almost choked. It was still one of her favourite stories about herself. In the afternoon, there'd be costume parties. You dressed up as Lazarus or Frankenstein, or you went as one of your dead relations. Or, if you couldn't think of anything else, you just wore something blue because that was the colour you went when you were buried at the bottom of the ocean. And everywhere there were bowls of candy and slices of special home-made Day of the Dead cake. Nobody's mother ever got it right. You always had to spit it out and shove it down the back of some chair. Later, when it grew dark, a fleet of ships would set sail for the ocean cemeteries, and the remembrance service would be held. Lying awake in his room, he'd imagine the boats rocking the the priest's voice pushed and pulled by the wind. And then, later still, after the boats had gone, the dead would rise from the ocean bed and walk on the water. They gathered the flowers that had been left as offerings, they blew the floating candles out. Smoke that smelt of churches poured from the wicks, drifted over the slowly heaving ocean, hid their feet. It was a night of strange occurrences. It was the night that everyone was Jesus... ...Thousands drove in for the celebrations. All Friday night the streets would be packed with people dressed head to toe in blue. Sometimes they painted their hands and faces too. Sometimes they dyed their hair. That was what you did in Moon Beach. Turned blue once a year. And then, sooner or later, you turned blue forever.”",
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                        "text": "“I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war but could not, because the work he did was considered essential to the war effort… I know he grew up on a farm in the backwoods of Nova Scotia, where they didn’t have running water or electricity. This is why he can build things and chop things… He did his high school courses by correspondence, sitting at the kitchen table and studying by the light by a kerosene lamp; he put himself through university by working in lumber camps and cleaning out rabbit hutches, and was so poor he lived in a tent in the summers to save money… All this is known, but unimaginable. Also I wish I did not know it. I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life of his own. Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.”",
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                        "text": "“So when people ask you where you're from, you won't have a one-word answer for them. Some people, the kind who use cosmopolitan and migrant as insults, will call you rootless. They will call you inauthentic. They will tell you that you lack some important anchor to the earth, that your loves and attachments have less force than theirs because of all the journeys in our family's past. When they say such things, remind yourself that they, too, are migrants, even if they've forgotten it. The human story is one of continual branching movement, out of Africa to every corner of the globe. When people talk of blood and soil, as if their ancestors had sprung fully formed from the earth of a particular place, it involves a kind of forgetting. Place is not nothing, and you need to understand that many families have histories that are unlike ours. There is something noble about staying put and building, something worthy of respect. Buy there is also something noble about the nomad who carries a whole world in a suitcase. You were born here in New York, int he middle of a February snowstorm, and so this city will always be yours. Perhaps, if we move again to one of the other places whose names your mother and I have murmured to each other across the kitchen table, you may not grow up thinking of it as home. I'm writing to tell you that you don't need to worry about this. It's not a loss or a lack. Your experience is no more or less authentic or beautiful than a person who lives on land their ancestors have farmed for generations. It is different. You can learn from such people. And they can learn from you.”",
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                        "text": "“The first time I was ever called ugly, I was thirteen. It was a rich friend of my brother Carlton's over to shoot guns in the field. 'Why you crying, girl?' Constantine asked me in the kitchen. I told her what the boy had called me, tears streaming down my face. 'Well? Is you?' I blinked, paused my crying. 'Is I what?' 'Now you look a here, Egenia'-because constantien was the only one who'd occasionally follow Mama's rule. 'Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person. Is you one a them peoples?' 'I don't know. I don't think so,' I sobbed. Constantine sat down next to me, at the kitchen table. I heard the cracking of her swollen joints. She pressed her thumb hard in the palm of my hand, somthing we both knew meant Listen. Listen to me. 'Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision.' Constantine was so close, I could see the blackness of her gums. 'You gone have to ask yourself, Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?' She kept her thumb pressed hard in my hand. I nodded that I understood. I was just smart enough to realize she meant white people. And even though I still felt miserable, and knew that I was, most likely, ugly, it was the first time she ever talked to me like I was something besides my mother's white child. All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.”",
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                        "text": "“Last fall, I was sitting at the kitchen table of two friends who have been together since 1972. They tell me a story about how they got together. She couldn't decide between two suitors, so she left New York City to spend the summer in an ashram. (Did I mention was 1972?) One of the suitors sent her postcards while she was gone, the famous postcards that came inside the sleeve of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. Needless to say, he was the suitor that won her hand. They tell me this story, laughing and interrupting each other, as their teenage daughter walks through the kitchen on her way out to a Halloween party. I've heard of these postcards - over the years, I've heard plenty of record-collector guys boast that they own the original vinyl Exile on Main Street with the original postcards, intact and pristine in the virgin sleeve. I've never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through the mail to a girl. I watch these two, laughing over this story at the same kitchen table they've shared for thirty years. I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.”",
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                        "text": "“How do you know when you're There, I had once wondered. Maybe you're lucky enough to notice the moment it's happening to you. Maybe you're able to block out all the other stuff that is, in the end, just background noise. But, most often, you don't know that you were There until you lose it, or until it gets taken away from you. When you look back, you clearly see that time, that place, when all the pieces of you had finally fit together to make you blissfully happy, make you your whole self. Like one of those jumbo puzzles that take up your entire kitchen table for weeks, the tiny pieces are just cardboard shapes with colors splashed on them, and they don't make any sense until you find their rightful place among the other pieces. When you put the last piece into place and the pieces now form a complete picture, that's when you're There. But while you were busy thinking about gluing the puzzle together, so that the pieces would never be apart again, someone comes from behind you, destroys the last piece and throws the rest of the pieces away. Even if you could muster up enough courage to put the pieces back together, the picture would never be complete again, because of the last missing piece...which, as it turned out, was smack in the middle, or in the heart, of the picture.”",
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                        "text": "“My Father Comes Home From Work\" My father comes home from work sweating through layers of bleached cotton t-shirts sweating through his wool plaid shirt. He kisses my mother starching our school dresses at the ironing board, swings his metal lunchbox onto the formica kitchen table rattling the remnants of the lunch she packed that morning before daylight: crumbs of baloney sandwiches, empty metal thermos of coffee, cores of hard red apples that fueled his body through the packing and unpacking of sides of beef into the walk-in refrigerators at James Allen and Sons Meat Packers. He is twenty-six. Duty propels him each day through the dark to Butcher Town where steers walk streets from pen to slaughterhouse. He whispers Jesus Christ to no one in particular. We hear him-- me, my sister Linda, my baby brother Willy, and Mercedes la cubana’s daughter who my mother babysits. When he comes home we have to be quiet. He comes into the dark living room. Dick Clark’s American Bandstand lights my father’s face white and unlined like a movie star’s. His black hair is combed into a wavy pompadour. He sinks into the couch, takes off work boots thick damp socks, rises to carry them to the porch. Leaving the room he jerks his chin toward the teen gyrations on the screen, says, I guess it beats carrying a brown bag. He pauses, for a moment to watch.”",
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