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“... I escape into that trance that memory shares with arousal. The same buzz in the blood, the reprieve, once more, from real time. That ecstatic condition the scientists call 'alpha,' and psychologists know as 'flow.' I still enjoy these transports of delight, the near-optical illusion as the outer world recedes and the inner world is allowed to take over: powerful, illogical. The radiance of the daydream.”
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“When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.”
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“... I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful 'break' was apt to lurk just around the corner.”
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“... this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her. ”
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“... irony is bitter truth / wrapped up in a little joke.”
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“We are sparks, we are shadows, we are pollen, which the next wind will carry away. We are dying already; it is all a dream.”
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“... the reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.”
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“Of my two 'handicaps,' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.”