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“It was really the world that was one’s brutal mother, the one that nursed and neglected you, and your own mother was only your sibling in that world.”
― Birds of America: Stories
― Birds of America: Stories
“There she is, a human being, diving into the unknown, and she is wide awake.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I watched summer die and autumn turn cold and gray through a broken slat in the blinds.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“No matter what terror or loveliness the earth could produce—winds, seas—a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. there was nothing as complex in the world—no flower or stone—as a single hello from a human being.”
― Birds of America: Stories
― Birds of America: Stories
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