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There is a certain silence which is language,
It swells, keeps time, like music, like passion.
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It still comes as a shock to realize that I don't write about what I know, but in order to find out what I know.
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Silence, that inspired dealer, takes the day's deck, the life, all in a crazy heap, lays it out, and plays its flawless hand of solitaire, every card in place. Scoops them up, and does it all over again.
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The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.
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French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.
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Patricia Hampl
Born:
March 12, 1946
(age 78)
Bio:
Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center.
Known for:
The Florist's Daughter (2007)
A romantic education (1981)
Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime (2006)
I Could Tell You Stories (1999)
Virgin Time (1992)
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