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I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.
All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.”
She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.
“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times.
