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“Writing brought a new kind of light into my life. It was the light of living life twice, once in real time and once in reflective time. It allowed me to grow into my true self. Writing gave me an intellectually challenging life in which I could still live quietly in my own home.”
― A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
― A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence
“Good, I pulled off being a “person.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“My present self is formed almost completely of the people around me.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“The inability to remember is itself perhaps a memory.”
― And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
― And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
“One morning while standing at a café counter staring at the magnificently thick brows of the man making my coffee, I discovered one should not gaze too long at faces unless one is prepared to fall in love again. As I watched the warm air of the coffee machine steam his eyeglasses, as I noticed him squint behind the fog, as he made a flower pattern in the foam of my coffee, I felt overcome with love. Faces have a near-unwatchable intimacy, particularly in a world in which everything perishes in the end. It is difficult to look as we choose, without emotional consequence.”
― Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
― Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
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