Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that. - Nuala O'Faolain

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I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country in the world forever, and the most frightened country in the world.

Nuala O'Faolain

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.

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Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows.

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My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

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. . . friendship is something you do.

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If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.

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I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

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