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“No one is exempt from the possibility of a conscious connection to All That Is. Not the poor. Not the suffering. Not the writer sitting in the open field. This”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple

“having a child, I thought, was something you should actively want, crave, even. It was not a venture for the ambivalent or passionless.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life

“He now viewed a successful relationship as one in which both people had recognized the best of what the other person had to offer and had chosen to value it as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life

“It’s about time we stop mistaking self-knowledge for self-absorption—and realize that nobody has a monopoly on selfishness.”
― Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
― Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids

“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation

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