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“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?”
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“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?”1 likes
“Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days. It is as if I could dip my hand down into time and scoop up blue and green lozenges of April heat a year ago in another country. I can feel that other day running underneath this one like an old videotape”0 likes
“The basic rules of male-female relations were imparted atmospherically in our family, no direct speech allowed.”0 likes
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“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?”
“In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.”
“At meals Mama and Papa would observe each other from opposite ends of the long table, and Mama's grey eyes would fly angry silences at Papa, who would catch them in his enormous mustache. Their marriage was a tall column of pain, like a fluted vase. Balanced precariously on the fricative point at which Mama's personality met Papa's chin, it was always about to fall over and smash.”
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