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Hovering over me was the Chihuly chandelier. Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They're everywhere and even if they don't get in your way, you can't help but build up a kind of antipathy toward them.
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I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.
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When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days, we spend our lives staring at screens twelve inches in front of us.
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After two days of heinous seasickness, I awoke in Antarctica. Out my window, three times as high as the ship, and twice as wide, was an iceberg. It was love at first sight.... Ice. It's trippy, symphonies frozen, the unconscious come to life, and smacking of color: blue.
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One of the main reasons I don't like leaving the house is because I might find myself face to face with a Canadian.
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Maybe that's what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.
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The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.
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This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.
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Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!)
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I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would always have my back. It made me feel giant. I raced back down the concrete ramp, faster than I ever had before, so fast I should have fallen, but I didn't fall, because Mom was in the world.
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We were like the Beatles, Dad.' 'I know you think that, sweetie' 'Seriously. Mom is John, you're Paul, I'm George, and Ice Cream is Ringo.' 'Ice Cream,' I said. 'Resentful of the past, fearful of the future...everytime we saw Ice Cream sitting there with her mouth open, we'd say, Poor Ice Cream, resentful of the past, fearful of the future.
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What's this?" She pulled out a card and held it away from her face. "I can't read what it says." I took it from her and read it aloud. 1. Beeber Bifocal 2. Twenty Mile House 3. Bee 4. Your escape Fourteen miracles to go.
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I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here.
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The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.
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I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of a perfunctory conversation, and someone will say, 'Tell us what you really think.' Or 'Maybe you should switch to decaf.
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I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out there to dry, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Iris Murdoch
Maria Semple
Born:
May 21, 1964
(age 60)
Bio:
Maria Keogh Semple is an American novelist and screenwriter. She is the author of This One Is Mine, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, and Today Will Be Different.
Known for:
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (2012)
Today Will Be Different (2016)
This One Is Mine (2008)
The Flood Girls (2016)
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