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“By the time she was sixteen, Jane had heard enough about this to last her several lifetimes. In her mother’s account of the way things were, you were young briefly and then you fell. You plummeted downwards like an overripe apple and hit the ground with a squash; you fell, and everything about you fell too. You got fallen arches and a fallen womb, and your hair and teeth fell out. That’s what having a baby did to you. It subjected you to the force of gravity.” (Wilderness Tips Quotes)
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“Change and decay in all around I see,’ she said, smiling in a way he did not like at all. ‘I’m not prepared for eternity.”
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“Everyone has to be somewhere, and this is where Lucy is. She is in Lois’s apartment, in the holes that open inwards on the wall, not like windows but like doors. She is here. She is entirely alive.”
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“Ger says that Kat has a tendency to push things to extremes, to go over the edge, merely from a juvenile desire to shock, which is hardly a substitute for wit. One of these days, he says, she will go way too far. Too far for him, is what he means.”
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“He will exist for her at least, he will be created by her, he will have a place in her mythology after all.”
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“He would like to get out of his own body for a while; he’d like to be somebody else.”
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“Her life began to seem long. Her adrenalin was running out. Soon she would be thirty, and all she could see ahead was more of the same.”
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“Her own life is placid and satisfactory, but there is nothing much that can be said about happiness.”
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“I no longer think that anything can happen. I no longer want to think that way. Happen is what you wait for, not what you do; and anything is a large category.”
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“I will bend, I will touch the ground, or as close to it as I can get without rupture. I will lay a wreath of invisible money on her grave.”
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“I will never be that old, thinks Joanne. I will die before I’m thirty. She knows this absolutely. It’s a tragic but satisfactory thought. If necessary, if some wasting disease refuses to carry her off, she’ll do it herself, with pills. She is not at all unhappy but she intends to be, later. It seems required.”
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“It was what they both wanted: freedom from the world of mothers, the world of precautions, the world of burdens and fate and heavy female constraints upon the flesh. They wanted a life without consequences.”
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“It’s an old sound, a sound left over.”
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“It’s simple,’ Kat told them. ‘You bombard them with images of what they ought to be, and you make them feel grotty for being the way they are. You’re working with the gap between reality and perception. That’s why you have to hit them with something new, something they’ve never seen before, something they aren’t. Nothing sells like anxiety.”
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“Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.”
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“Luckily she was not too beautiful; extreme beauty put people off. Instead she looked healthy, vitaminized. Trustworthy.”
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“Once in a while, though, he went on binges. He would sneak into bookstores or libraries, lurk around the racks where the little magazines were kept; sometimes he’d buy one. Dead poets were his business, living ones his vice. Much of the stuff he read was crap and he knew it; still, it gave him an odd lift. Then there would be the occasional real poem, and he would catch his breath. Nothing else could drop him through space like that, then catch him; nothing else could peel him open.”
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“Poetry was the way out then, for young people who wanted some exit from the lumpen bourgeoisie and the shackles of respectable wage-earning. It was what painting had been at the turn of the century. Richard knows this now, although he did not then. He doesn’t know what the equivalent is at the moment. Film-making, he’d guess, for those with intellectual pretensions.” (Wilderness Tips Quotes)
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“Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship.”
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“Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn’t even notice. We thought it was art.”
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“Sex has been domesticated, stripped of the promised mystery, added to the category of the merely expected. It’s just what is done, mundane as hockey. It’s celibacy these days that would raise eyebrows.”
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“She felt betrayed, bereft. Loss of face, the Japanese called it. They knew. She felt as though her face, so carefully prepared and nourished, had been ripped off.”
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“She has done an outrageous thing, but she doesn’t feel guilty. She feels light and peaceful and filled with charity, and temporarily without a name.”
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“She no longer knows what she wants from him.”
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“She rents herself a large, empty apartment on the top floor of a house. She has no long-term plans. At night she listens to the radio and cooks subsistence meals, and cries onto her plate.”
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“She told him he was a grouch, but since that was more or less the behavior she expected from husbands she didn’t seem to mind.”
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“She would be invisible, of course. No one would hear her. And nothing has happened, really, that hasn’t happened before.”
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“Something has changed, she has changed something, but she doesn’t yet know what.”
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“Sometimes he gets high, on the pot that circulates as freely as cigarettes did once. He thinks he should be enjoying this experience more than he actually does.”
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“The idea of exploration appealed to her then: to get onto a boat and just go somewhere, somewhere mapless, off into the unknown. To launch yourself into frights; to find things out. There was something daring and noble about it, despite all of the losses and failures, or perhaps because of them.”
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“The light only shines for some,” she said, kindly and sadly. “And even for them it’s not all the time. The rest of the time you’re alone.”
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“The lock splits. The iron gate swings open. She emerges, raises her arms towards the suddenly chilled moon. The world changes.”
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“The question at this age is what kind of dog you will shortly resemble. She will be a beagle, Prue a terrier. Pamela will be an Afghan, or something equally unearthly.”
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“Then she was happy, sure of herself, her plain face almost luminous. She wanted to cause joy. at these times she was loved, at others merely trusted.”
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“There were consequence after all; but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.”
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“Time is going faster and faster; the days of the week whisk by like panties.”
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“You’re working with the gap between reality and perception. That’s why you have to hit them with something new, something they’ve never seen before, something they aren’t. Nothing sells like anxiety.”
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