...the child trying not to appear as a child of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.
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It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.
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It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set – which was kind of shallow in my case anyway – had begun to fade.
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