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Clear Light of Day (1980)
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Do you know anyone who would — secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self — really prefer to return to childhood?
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The moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.
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What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.
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Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Anita Desai
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June 24, 1937
(age 87)
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