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I got up to get us a drink of water and as I stood in the kitchen in the early morning light, running the water out of the tap,...

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 I got up to get us a drink of water and as I stood in the kitchen in the early morning light, running the water out of the tap,...

Feb 26,2024

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It’s so warm it’s almost friendly. A friendly work of art. I’ve never thought such a thing in my life. And look at it. It’

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 It’s so warm it’s almost friendly. A friendly work of art. I’ve never thought such a thing in my life. And look at it. It’

Jan 22,2024

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That’s what love is, this matter of hopeful travel against the usual deeply troubling odds.

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 That’s what love is, this matter of hopeful travel against the usual deeply troubling odds.

Jan 06,2024

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It’s a question of how we regard our situations, how we look and see where we are, and how we choose, if we can, when we

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 It’s a question of how we regard our situations, how we look and see where we are, and how we choose, if we can, when we

Nov 28,2023

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With a bit of help and a bit of luck, we get to be more than the one thing or the nothing that history’d have us be. We’re

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 With a bit of help and a bit of luck, we get to be more than the one thing or the nothing that history’d have us be. We’re

Nov 14,2023

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Edges are magic, too; there’s a kind of forbidden magic on the borders of things, always a ceremony of crossing over, even if

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 Edges are magic, too; there’s a kind of forbidden magic on the borders of things, always a ceremony of crossing over, even if

Feb 10,2023

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Maybe coincidence never means the way you want it to. Because if it did it wouldn’t be coincidence, would it?

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 Maybe coincidence never means the way you want it to. Because if it did it wouldn’t be coincidence, would it?

Dec 23,2022

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Imagine if you made something and then you always had to be seen through what you’d made, as if the thing you’d made became you.

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 Imagine if you made something and then you always had to be seen through what you’d made, as if the thing you’d made became you.

Nov 13,2022

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I don’t know that I believe in gods enough to ask of them. But if they exist and I might be so bold as to say, excuse me,

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 I don’t know that I believe in gods enough to ask of them. But if they exist and I might be so bold as to say, excuse me,

Feb 27,2022

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Cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion.

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 Cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion.

Jan 06,2022

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So always risk your skin and never fear losing it, because it always does some good one way or another when the powers that

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 So always risk your skin and never fear losing it, because it always does some good one way or another when the powers that

Nov 27,2021

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A great many men don’t understand a woman full of joy, even more don’t understand paintings full of joy by a woman.

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 A great many men don’t understand a woman full of joy, even more don’t understand paintings full of joy by a woman.

Jan 24,2021

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We do treat books surprisingly lightly in contemporary culture. We’d never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen,...

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 We do treat books surprisingly lightly in contemporary culture. We’d never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen,...

Dec 08,2020

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Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous.

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 Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous.

Nov 26,2020

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