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“When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school--I went to school for a long time--I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis....”
― Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: A Literary Collection of Interconnected Lives in a New Haven Community
― Men Giving Money, Women Yelling: A Literary Collection of Interconnected Lives in a New Haven Community
“When a draft looks terrible, I don’t try to convince myself that it’s actually good or even that someday it will be, only that it’s my job to work on it whether it’s good or not.”
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“Invention comes about when we let it, when we don’t mind feeling stupid as we do it— it feels like what children do, it is what children do — when we clear a place for it, become quiet, and wait.”
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“She could recognize the change in the air when anybody in her family, anywhere in the house, began to read. The air was roomier, because the reader was elsewhere.”
― The Book Borrower
― The Book Borrower
