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Fernanda Eberstadt

  • Being a child is largely a flux of bold and furtive guesswork, fixed ideas continually dislodged by scrambling and tentative revision ... All our energy and cunning go into getting our bearings without letting on that we are ignorant and lost.

    • Fernanda Eberstadt,
    • Isaac and His Demons
    • ()

Fernanda Eberstadt, U.S. writer

(1960)