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Besides, thought the girl, what miracle didn't look ridiculous while it was happening? If a miracle was ordinary, it would be like, just, so what?
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Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.
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But this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn't done before.
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Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you.
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Of course. You get everything from books.
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The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
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Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?
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Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties. Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.
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Oh, if necessity is the mother of invention, who is the Father? Fantasy.
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