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Yiyun Li
“For some people a façade is necessary even with friends”
Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End

James  Bradley
“Overhead the birds are calling, their cries seeming to fill the air. As I watch, they rise, flinging their bodies against the sky, intent upon the moment, spinning and turning like embers or smoke upon the air. I envy them, this life of theirs, the way they live so free of themselves, they are without past, without future, an exaltation of life beating in so many parts, rising up into the infinity of space. Watching them I find I want to weep, and yet I have no tear.”
James Bradley, The Resurrectionist

“One of the tenets of civility is the willingness to be publicly courteous with those with whom we disagree or dislike when inescapably we find ourselves in their company.”
Frank Moorhouse, The inspector-general of Misconception: The Ultimate Compendium to Sorting Things Out

Helen Garner
“When, in the street, I see a mother walking with her grown-up daughter, I can hardly bear to witness the mother’s pride, the softening of her face, her incredulous joy at being granted her daughter’s company; and the iron discipline she imposes on herself, to muffle and conceal this joy.”
Helen Garner, Everywhere I Look

Yiyun Li
“The unspeakable is a wound that stays open always, always, and forever.”
Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End

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