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“Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.”
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“In writing this book, I have come to feel like a kind of immigrant in my own life, inhabiting a world of reflections and images of people I can't fully know, some of whom are dead, and I see now that my life has been shaped by this network, in ways I didn't always perceive.”
― I Pity the Poor Immigrant
― I Pity the Poor Immigrant
“The stories I create are never as awful as reality.”
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“She is just a woman who life has made different. This is her strange way of trying to love you.”
― The Hungry Ghosts
― The Hungry Ghosts
“You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body. ... Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.”
― No One Is Here Except All of Us
― No One Is Here Except All of Us
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