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I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.
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The words of our childhood became strangers to us- we couldn't use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language.
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Even after the only person whose opinion I cared about left on a boat for America, I continued to fill pages with her name.
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Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now.
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I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.
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We take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Nicole Krauss
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Born:
August 18, 1974
(age 49)
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Nicole Krauss is an American author best known for her three novels Man Walks Into a Room, The History of Love and Great House.
Known for:
The History of Love (2005)
Great House (2010)
Man Walks Into a Room (2002)
An Arrangement of Light (2012)
The Future Dictionary of America (2004)
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