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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Diane Ackerman

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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
Author
Naturalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Mirror
Mirrors
Secret
Face
Chastening
Faces
Pins
Look
Gaze
Looks
Reveals
Double

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I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.
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Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.
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The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
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A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.
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We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention
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Flight is nothing but an attitude in motion.
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I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
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The only and absolute perfect union of two is when a baby hangs suspended in its mother's womb, like a tiny madman in a padded cell, attached to her, feeling her blood and hormones, and moods play through its body, feeling her feelings.
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Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite
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The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions.
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An animal on a leash is not tamed by the owner. The owner is extending himself through the leash to that part of his personality which is pure dog, that part of him which just wants to eat, sleep, bark, hump chairs, wet the floor in joy, and drink out of a toilet bowl.
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.
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In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.
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...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom.
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It's animal by animal that you save a species.
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