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  • Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
  • I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
  • In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
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  • The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
  • We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
  • I have never been sure what the word "nouveau" can possibly mean in America, implying as it does that the speaker is gazing down six hundred years of rolled lawns.
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