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> [“If you travel internationally, you will feel shocked by contemptuous talk of America. To hear your fellow citizens characterized as barbarians who know nothing of love, food, health, and religion, but everything of lawsuits, fast food, and guns, is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/if-you-travel-internationally-you-will-feel-shocked-by-contemptuous/)

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## More by Hilary Thayer Hamann

> [“Hell is only loneliness, a place without play for the soul, a place without God. How could there be God in loneliness when God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/hell-is-only-loneliness-a-place-without-play-for-the-soul-a-place/)

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> [“Having to talk to people was the one thing, but soliciting conversation was something else. If I acted squirmy or didn't make eye contact,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/having-to-talk-to-people-was-the-one-thing-but-soliciting/)

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> [“I shook my head. I couldn't remember the time before, or the way it used to be. There were things we used to do,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/i-shook-my-head-i-couldn-t-remember-the-time-before-or-the-way-it/)

[Hilary Thayer Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-thayer-hamann/)

> [“Why remain polite but powerless, in love but a beggar?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/why-remain-polite-but-powerless-in-love-but-a-beggar/)

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> [“They were sorting, or classifying. It's easy-anyone dressed funny is the enemy, especially if they reject your supremacy or do not acknowledge school as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/they-were-sorting-or-classifying-it-s-easy-anyone-dressed-funny-is/)

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> [“The families of graduating seniors emptied out of cars, sheepish in uncommon splendor, like milling clans at the origin of a parade. There is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/the-families-of-graduating-seniors-emptied-out-of-cars-sheepish-in/)

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> [And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/and-loneliness-i-should-say-something-of-loneliness-the-panic-the/)

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> [“My mother refuses to go into the ocean. She respects it, she says, which is basically the same as saying she's afraid. I go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/my-mother-refuses-to-go-into-the-ocean-she-respects-it-she-says-which/)

[Hilary Thayer Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-thayer-hamann/)

> [“The unusual thing about quiet is that when you seek it, it is almost impossible to achieve. When you strive for quiet, you become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/the-unusual-thing-about-quiet-is-that-when-you-seek-it-it-is-almost/)

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> [“I liked the idea of marking the place where a life ends as opposed to the place a corpse is buried. And also the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/i-liked-the-idea-of-marking-the-place-where-a-life-ends-as-opposed-to/)

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> [“My hand reaches for his eye. He does not pull away but breathes into my touch. His normal lid drifts closed, and beneath my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/my-hand-reaches-for-his-eye-he-does-not-pull-away-but-breathes-into/)

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> [“Envy is awful. Unlike jealousy, which comes from the threat of losing what you cherish, envy is a dark desire for things over which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/envy-is-awful-unlike-jealousy-which-comes-from-the-threat-of-losing/)

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> [“Jocks were pretty much exempt from the standards that bound the rest of us. Teachers and administrators humor them because it's in everyone's interests…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/jocks-were-pretty-much-exempt-from-the-standards-that-bound-the-rest/)

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> [“This is where I falter. This is where I lose myself. This is where years invert and minutes reverse and ideas of what was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/this-is-where-i-falter-this-is-where-i-lose-myself-this-is-where/)

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> [“If you travel internationally, you will feel shocked by contemptuous talk of America. To hear your fellow citizens characterized as barbarians who know nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-thayer-hamann/if-you-travel-internationally-you-will-feel-shocked-by-contemptuous/)

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