Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time … - Lisa Alther

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You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

Lisa Alther

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

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If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

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There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

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