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It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the…
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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest.…
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After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada...I think we should rethink your dad’s rule. 
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I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.
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I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out…
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As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks -…
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When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he…
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I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then…
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She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the…
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