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“I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and would know how to cope with everything and my kids would rise up and call me blessed. Now I see that whatever I'm like, I'm pretty well stuck with it for life. Hell of a revelation that turned out to be.”
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“On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.”
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“The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.”
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“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.”
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“She moved with a slowness that was a sign of richness; cream does not pour quickly.”
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“The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.”
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“Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.”
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“... the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.”