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“Why? When I myself do not believe?”
“Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination”
— Jun 30, 2022 06:33PM
“Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out by believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination”
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“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time”
— Jul 10, 2022 11:54AM
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“The last time of anything had the poignancy of death itself.”
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“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,” thought Francine, “something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you’re blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you’re alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”
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“And she doesn’t have to worry about me, either. I don’t need to drink to get drunk. I can get drunk on things like the tulip - and this night.”
— Jul 10, 2022 09:49AM
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“This could be a whole life,” she thought. “You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires.”
— Jul 10, 2022 08:36AM
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“Someday you’ll remember what I said and you’ll thank me for it.” Francis wished adults would stop I guess her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she’d had to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.
— Jul 09, 2022 08:18PM
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“In that case, she, in turn, would torment those found guilty, forgetting her own hurt at being tormented. They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.”
— Jul 05, 2022 07:53PM
Quinn
is on page 84 of 496
“Only by having these things in my mind can I live beyond what I have to live for”
— Jun 30, 2022 06:33PM
