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“My thinking is this: Her original mother, she did what she must. I, her in-between mother, I did what I must. That Japanese couple, they also did what they must. One day, this little girl will grow up, and she will be doing what she must. So you see, we all do what we must”
― Saving Fish from Drowning
― Saving Fish from Drowning
“There is a saying that when a bird in flight gets tired, it will land on any tree”
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“Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone.”
― Educated
― Educated
“It influenced my life that I did not find content immediately and easily - - and now I am I because of that.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“All this talk of oblivion, of wanting nothing and becoming nobody, seems rather contradictory from a Buddhist sense. The Buddha did all this himself and he became so much a nobody that he became famous, the biggest nobody of them all. And he will never disappear, because fame has made him immortal. But I do admire him for his attitude and discipline. He was a good Indian son.”
― Saving Fish from Drowning
― Saving Fish from Drowning
Waynes’s 2025 Year in Books
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