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- You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most…
- Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.
- It's always the mother's fault, ain't it?" she said softly, collecting her coat. "That boy turn out bad cause his mama a drunk, or she…
- I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them,…
- You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
- I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.
- People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
- Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for…
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