Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left … - William Maxwell

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I tossed off a mention of the pirates early on. And they became integral to the backstory. Sometimes now I imagine them in the woods. They scare me. All men. Dirty and wearing red.

William Maxwell

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

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It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

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If I had had to write only about imaginary people, I would have had to close up my typewriter. I wrote about my life in less and less disguise as I grew older, and finally with no disguise - except the disguise we create for ourselves, which is self-deception.

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The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters

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His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

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My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

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