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“She had stepped into more than his arms for a dance, had waited for the precise seconds so it was possible and socially forgivable—the sunlit wedding procession, the eternal meal—and she had passed him a billet-doux as if they were within a Dumas. The note she had written said Good-bye. Then it said Hello. And then it reminded him that A message sent by pigeon to The Hague can sometimes change everything. She had, like one of those partially villainous and always evolving heroines, turned his heart over on the wrong day.”
― Divisadero
― Divisadero
“we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives”
― Divisadero
― Divisadero
“...the fact that a conclusion does not follow from its putative premise is not sufficient to show that it is false.”
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“Could you waste your life on a gift? If you did not use your gift, was it a betrayal?”
― Divisadero
― Divisadero
“I come from Divisadero Street. Divisadero, from the Spanish word for ‘division,’ the street that at one time was the dividing line between San Francisco and the fields of the Presidio. Or it might be derived from the word divisar, meaning ‘to gaze at something from a distance.’ (There is a ‘height’ nearby called El Divisadero.) Thus a point from which you can look far into the distance”
― Divisadero
― Divisadero
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