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“Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.”
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“As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.”
― Maya's Notebook
― Maya's Notebook
“There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.”
― Island Beneath the Sea
― Island Beneath the Sea
“Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.”
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“Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.”
― Portrait in Sepia
― Portrait in Sepia
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