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- The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return…
- The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
- We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten…
- Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
- I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
- There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
- I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels…
- The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
- Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.
- I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This…
- She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.
- He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
- When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
- These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of…
- I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.
- We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister,…
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