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Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.


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I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.



No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.



I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.



Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.



So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.



Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.



I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.



I delight in what I fear.

I delight in what I fear.



The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.



We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.





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I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.

I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.



If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.

If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.



I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.



I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.



Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.



Love makes us do wicked things.

Love makes us do wicked things.



I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.



Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.



Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.

Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes.



I don't mess around when it comes to brushing my teeth. Properly brushed, twice a day, every day, to get my day started.

I don't mess around when it comes to brushing my teeth. Properly brushed, twice a day, every day, to get my day started.




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