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The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.

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Wide reading is important. You don’t have to like it, but it’s important to grapple with things you don’t understand. I’ve been spending the last six ...more

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The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

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They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever re...more

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Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result.

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I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has ...more

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It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.

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I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another cha...more

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...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.