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- All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.
- Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own…
- They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.
- Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more,…
- But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the…
- ("I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes - "With my whole…
- Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the…
- What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams…
- We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those…
- There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.
- They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and…
- They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried…
- Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.
- I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.
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