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Light, the artist remembered, wasn’t really drawn on the page. Light came from shade on the page. The light of our lives, she told herself, is formed by the darkness we place around it.
“She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.”
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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― Alarms and Discursions
― Alarms and Discursions
“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”
― Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
― Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.”
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“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
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