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“ I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills. ”

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The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.

~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Lynne Sharon Schwartz Bed Death Inactivity Inertia Sleep

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

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Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.the Tai Chi instructor

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Lynne Sharon Schwartz Bitterness Grief Parables Sorrow Tai Chi

Does being true to one's self mean offering the literal truth or the truth that should have been, the truth of the image of one's self? It hardly matters by this time. By this time the border between seeing straight on and seeing round the corners of solid objects, between the world as smooth and coherent and the world as dissociated skinless particle, is thoroughly blurred. No longer a case of double vision, but of two separate eyes whose separate visions - what happened and what might have happened - come together in what we call the past, which we see with hindsight. Memory is revision. I have just destroyed another piece of my past, to tell a story.

~ Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Lynne Sharon Schwartz Hindsight Identity Memory Narrative Self Vision