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They’d just need to chop down the mango, or uproot it. The thing was looming verdant in the middle of the view. Mr. Lamptey laughed uproariously. He would do nothing of the sort. Had the mango ever harmed them, done them wrong in any way?
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“I think it best we went our separate ways, and that those paths never crossed again.”
― Such a Fun Age
― Such a Fun Age
“The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
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“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
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“Sometimes, people come up to me when I am knitting and they say things like, "Oh, I wish I could knit, but I'm just not the kind of person who can sit and waste time like that." How can knitting be wasting time? First, I never just knit; I knit and think, knit and listen, knit and watch. Second, you aren't wasting time if you get a useful or beautiful object at the end of it.
I will remember that not everyone understands. I will resist the urge to ask others what they do when they watch TV.”
― At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
I will remember that not everyone understands. I will resist the urge to ask others what they do when they watch TV.”
― At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
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