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These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . . Sontag makes a wonderful stew of the past, the life caught in memory and imagination, serves it all up lavishly laced with silences, and provides us with a gourmand's series of short courses.

Doris Grumbach

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Doris Grumbach
Age: 106
Born: 1918
Born: July 12
Novelist
New York City
New York
Wonderful
Series
Stew
Success
Unique
Serves
Makes
Short
Originality
Form
Silence
Establish
Stories
Memories
Provides
Sontag
Past
Vision
Experiments
Lavishly
Life
Imagination
Caught
Laced
Courses
Memory
Silences

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one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time.
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What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.
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My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.
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Praise requires constant renewal and expansion.
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My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.
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Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.
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We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others before we began to doubt our existence?
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The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.
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