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Jane Hamilton Quotes: She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
         

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.


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She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
         



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I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.



It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.



It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.



We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.



Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.



My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.



It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.



Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.



This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.



In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.





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It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.

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