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Calypso
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At no time did she get along with everybody, but there was always someone she was in contact with.
“I’VE WRITTEN MEMOIR FOR YEARS now in spite of a poor memory. Maybe because of my poor memory.”
― Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
― Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
“THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WRITING has taught me is this: the more vulnerable you allow yourself to be, the stronger you become.”
― Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
― Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
“I have eaten good food in unprepossessing locales, but I doubt the disparity between the crude, shabby atmosphere of that nameless cement-block dispensary of protein and redemption and the quality of the lunch laid on by the butcher of Zegota will ever be matched.”
― The Best American Travel Writing 2016
― The Best American Travel Writing 2016
“Detail is the antidote to boredom, and tends to keep depression at bay.”
― Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
― Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing
“One wonders, after reading a great many such firsthand accounts, if polar explorers were not somehow chosen for the empty and solemn splendor of their prose styles—or even if some eminent Victorians, examining their own prose styles, realized, perhaps dismayed, that from the look of it, they would have to go in for polar exploration.”
― The Annie Dillard Reader
― The Annie Dillard Reader
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