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People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne…
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With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you…
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There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at…
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A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and…
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Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always…
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Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches,…
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There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.
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...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a…
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You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to…
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You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg…
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How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or,…
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Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you…
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I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people…
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