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“At this rate, he felt, he might even live to see the day when novelists described their characters by some other device than that of manoeuvring them into examining themselves in mirrors.”
― The Glimpses of the Moon
― The Glimpses of the Moon
“Mary wasn't brilliant.She was a good woman who let her emotions guide her politics. She just couldn't help being for anybody who was agin something.”
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“But perhaps what mattered at eighty was habit, the body no longer interested in sex, the mind no longer interested in speculation, the smaller things in life mattering more than the large and, in the end, the slow realization that nothing really mattered at all.”
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“At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.”
― Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone
― Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone
“I miss it if I’m not in it for any length of time; I don’t feel comfortable. I want trees and I want frequent rain.”
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