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Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

Mary Cantwell

I had wanted to come back to Greenwich Village ever since I had left Waverly Place, and since moving to West Eleventh Street, I have never lived anyplace else. I do not want to. That is not because of what the Village is but because of what I have made it, and what I have made it depends on who I am at the time.

Mary Cantwell

Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal.

Mary Cantwell

The hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

Mary Cantwell

Mary Cantwell

Mary Cantwell

Born: 1930

Died: 2000 (aged 70)

Bio: Mary Cantwell was an American-born journalist and novelist. Cantwell served as a member of the New York Times editorial board for sixteen years. She wrote unsigned editorials, novels, and commentary for that newspaper.

Known for:

Manhattan, when I was young (1995)
Manhattan memoir (1992)
Speaking with Strangers (1998)
St. Patrick's Day (1967)

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