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“It [humor] inhabits the marginal.”
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“Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?”
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“Jean turned the piano into a human voice, waking them out of sodden sleep. Just listening was living. Life filtered through tired bodies, bent backs. Heads lifted. Fear and worry fled from their eyes. For an instant, they breathed in a fullness of life denied them in life.”
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“There was an infinite cold passion in their flight, like the passion of the universe, a proud mystery never to be solved.”
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“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating just the same.”
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“Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.”
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“If only her brain worked as well as her jaws.”
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“... we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.”