These Precious Days: Essays
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haphazard aloneness of it all,
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Oh, beagle, isn’t it the truth? That moment when you write a single, perfect sentence is worth more than an entire box of biscuits.
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It was nothing but noise, a question for the sake of speaking and not for the sake of inquiry.
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From time to time I believe I’ve found The Answer to Life, and right now I think it’s spinach.
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We don’t deserve anything—not the suffering and not the golden light. It just comes.
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Because in this present moment we always feel that we have fully arrived. We believe we are fair and sensitive, helpful, kind, no longer predatory or racist.