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Alison Maglaughlin
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“At times I think of human relationships as something soft like sand or water, and by pouring them into particular vessels we give them shape. So a mother’s relationship with her daughter is poured into a vessel marked “mother and child”, and the relationship takes the contours of its container and is held inside there, for better or worse.”
Just wow. Very profound. How we are separate, yet coexist.👏🏼
— Nov 03, 2024 03:16PM
Just wow. Very profound. How we are separate, yet coexist.👏🏼
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Alison Maglaughlin
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“Alice, I hate pretending that the personal vanity of attractive young women is anything other than boring and embarrassing.”
— Nov 03, 2024 02:54PM
Alison Maglaughlin
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…because remembering is weaker than experiencing. Maybe that’s why middle aged people always think their thoughts and feelings are more important than those of young people, because they only weakly remember the feelings of their youth…
— Nov 03, 2024 09:27AM
Alison Maglaughlin
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Eileen walked back to the apartment that night and found Alice on the sofa, working on her book. Alice, she says, am I going to have to live in the real world one day? Without looking up, Alice snorted and said: Jesus no, absolutely not. Who told you that?
— Nov 03, 2024 09:14AM
