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“Ideas move in space and time. They swim like fish. They drift like pollen. They migrate like birds. Sometimes their movement carries them right around the world, and they find new niches in which to flourish.”
― Is a River Alive?
― Is a River Alive?
“The infancy of my playing was fostered by an absence of criticism. The wisdom of the old people was incalculable.”
― This Is Happiness
― This Is Happiness
“She read and read, because she had woken these voices, and to stop reading would silence them.”
― Said the Dead
― Said the Dead
“When it came to me, Mrs Roy taught me how to think, then raged against my thoughts. She taught me to be free and raged against my freedom. She taught me to write and resented the author I became”
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
“She read and read, because she had woken these voices, and to stop reading them would silence them. But even if she was to stop reading, they might keep speaking in her dreams, in the supermarket aisle, in traffic, in the swimming pool, in the library or the post office queue. The only way to let them rest would be to find a way towards an ending. If all she had to lead them there were casebooks, well then, she'd have to keep reading.”
― Said the Dead
― Said the Dead
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