“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
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Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
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“Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.”
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“Women who are in no rush to respond to a world that’s only conceived them as its consequence.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can put in the right dig, that's very important.”
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“Things take the time they take.
Don't worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?”
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Don't worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?”
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