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It enfolded us in a culture that was a thousand years in the making. America has no culture. She is still in diapers.
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pretended that I was building the house you would live in forever, the house you’d be in when God came to get you.”
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Venice has always brought me face to face with the insufficiency of language when confronted by such timeless beauty.
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pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in things we could see, not that we heard. I almost die myself when I think of my mother not being here. I can’t stand it. I can barely speak about it. But when your time comes, Mama, I want you to know that I made this coffin loving you every minute. I cut the tree down and took it to the sawmill, and sanded down every inch of wood. I polished it until I could see my face in its reflection. My brothers put this party together and I didn’t help them a bit. I was doing this. I was afraid it would upset you and your friends. But I
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Love’s action, Jack. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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. Her view of men was one-dimensional, but not inaccurate: men were prisoners of their genitalia and women were the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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a man less tortured and with a smaller stable of demons,
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. Because he had lived all over the world, he had the courage to speak opinions that no other Waterford boy dared articulate for fear of ridicule.
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. Our lunch was an infallible combination of the worst foods produced in America and it all tasted great.
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It is no sin not to have culture. It is a sin to pretend.
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One can do anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided with a passionate and gifted teacher.
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There is no arrogance in my claim, just fact.