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I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

Anita Shreve

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Anita Shreve
Age: 71 †
Born: 1946
Born: October 7
Died: 2018
Died: March 29
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Dedham Massachusetts
Anita Hale Shreve
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Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.
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If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.
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To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.
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Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.
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I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?
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Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.
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Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
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I loved him, Muire said. We were in love. As if that were enough.
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To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.
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That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.
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And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.
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There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.
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Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.
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Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.
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A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
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Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.
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I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.
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