I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had … - Stanley Crawford

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After The Sopranos, my mother said, "Couldn't there be some raft floating under the bridge when you jumped? Or couldn't you have a twin brother?" I said, "Yeah, if they'd wanted me that bad. But they don't. "

Stanley Crawford

I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one shouldn't write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading, or simply living.

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Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

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To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

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Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

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Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings, oblivious to what goes on around them. It is one of those things, I suppose, intelligence now and then does, must in fact now and then do, must think, must play, must imagine, must talk to itself. . . . What, finally, intelligence could be for: finding your way back.

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There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.

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