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• My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took…
• I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would…
• Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that…
• Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into…
• Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
• Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
• Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over…
• We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract.…

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