Alice McDermott Quotes

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• My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way…
• The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it…
• We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much…
• We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his…
• The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.
• A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility.

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