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“No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.”
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“Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.”
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“ To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do. ”
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“... we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.”
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“Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.”
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“Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.”
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“... the only real rule I know in writing is, Don't be boring. Sleeping people don't read a word you write or hear a thing you say. How can they? They are asleep. So don't put anyone to sleep, and you will probably do okay.”
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“Time was not something that passed. All eternity was but a single fierce stroke of rapture. Existence was all a weaving to and fro upon the same dim loom.”