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- People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.
- There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
- He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good…
- Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more…
- There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give…
- If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions, more than the…
- Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be…
- I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I... I remember thinking to…
- She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly…
- We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite…
- She thinks how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures…
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