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> [“I had always wanted to contribute in some way. Leave a little more than I took.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/i-had-always-wanted-to-contribute-in-some-way-leave-a-little-more/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

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## More by Gabrielle Hamilton

> [“There are two things you should never do with your father: learn how to drive and learn how to kill a chicken.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/there-are-two-things-you-should-never-do-with-your-father-learn-how/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/my-father-has-said-a-hundred-times-and-i-have-paid-attention-that-it/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [ “\[I\] like to be anchored by routine, not shackled by it.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/i-like-to-be-anchored-by-routine-not-shackled-by-it/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/i-was-purely-content-to-sit-in-the-car-and-wander-around-my-own-mind/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [“It became such a recurring experience during this period when I was twenty -- to be starving and afraid of running out of money…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/it-became-such-a-recurring-experience-during-this-period-when-i-was/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [“For the first time in probably the entire decade that had passed since I had seen or spoken to my own mother, I thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/for-the-first-time-in-probably-the-entire-decade-that-had-passed/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/it-s-promising-and-seductive-that-huge-italian-family-sitting-around/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [“I had always wanted to contribute in some way. Leave a little more than I took.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/i-had-always-wanted-to-contribute-in-some-way-leave-a-little-more/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [“Each housing development has a "country" name - Squirrel Valley, Pine Ridge, Eagle crossing, Deer Path, which has an unkind way of invoking and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/each-housing-development-has-a-country-name-squirrel-valley-pine/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [“But it was from him - with his cool, long sideburns and aviator sunglasses, and box of watercolor paints (and artist's paycheck) - from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/but-it-was-from-him-with-his-cool-long-sideburns-and-aviator/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [“I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With nothing more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/i-am-often-slow-in-catching-up-to-the-times-but-even-so-i-still/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [Badass is a juvenile aspiration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/badass-is-a-juvenile-aspiration/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/how-can-it-be-after-all-this-concentrated-effort-and-separation-how/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [“That is my favorite kind of integrated person. Some of each thing and not too much of any one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/that-is-my-favorite-kind-of-integrated-person-some-of-each-thing-and/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

> [“So what is there to make of the simplistic thing I've come to utter in explanation, which is so drab, so monochromatic, so water…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-hamilton/so-what-is-there-to-make-of-the-simplistic-thing-i-ve-come-to-utter/)

[Gabrielle Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-hamilton/)

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