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lucia berlin

(1936–2004) Writer

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lucia berlin was a writer.

Quick Facts About lucia berlin

Born: November 12, 1936
Died: November 12, 2004
Profession: Writer

About lucia berlin

[Wikidata] American writer... | [Wikipedia] Lucia Brown Berlin was an American short story writer. She had a small, devoted following, but did not reach a mass audience during her lifetime. She rose to sudden literary fame in 2015, eleven years after her death, with the publication of a volume of her selected stories, A Manual for Cleaning Wo

Quotes by lucia berlin

“they say a baby's true babtism occurs when hefirst falls out of bed”

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“Anytime you think you hate somebody, what you do is pray for them. Try it, you’ll see.”

Hate

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“Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.”

Observational

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“My sons have all grown now, so I'm down from five washers to one, but one takes just as long.”

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“I don't think I ever really liked the world until I met him.”

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“Her smile, though, no, it was her laugh, a dusky, deep cascading laughter that caught the joy, implied and mocked the sorrow…

Humor

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“Solitude is an Anglo-Saxon concept.”

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“There was no way I could explain that it had all happened so fast, that I wasn’t smiling away at the cats…

Time

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