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“She [my mother] said that mothers had a thousand thoughts to get through with in a day, and that most of these were about avoiding disaster.”
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“Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.”
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“Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?”
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“There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.”
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“And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!”
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“When the unpaid grocer comes in at the door romance flies out of the window.”
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“I think we should not try so hard to talk. Sometimes it is wise to let things grow more roots before one blows them away with words.”
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“Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?”