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“Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.”
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“... after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret is no fun. And although you don't want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.”
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“... Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.”
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“The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.”
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“The one who knows best — the victim — about what is happening, loses the ability to tell us, the family, how to help. The ability to panic leaves the victim; it swarms over the family. As the victim forgets what is wrong, the family sees how it is, all very wrong.”
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“Those who build walls are their own prisoners.”
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“The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.”
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“If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.”