Boris Fishman Quotes

#1. They kissed slowly, the human traffic of First Avenue taking them into its indifferent arms, the city's special combination of curiosity and resentment.

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#2. ("It is a blessing to die in the natural order." - Sofia Gelman.)

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#3. They took a meandering route through the neighborhood, louche and gentrified all at once.

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#4. She breathed heavily, like a figure skater just off the ice.

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#5. the left hand trembling in an eternal so-so.

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#6. Even though they, each for his own reason, did not wish to end the conversation, they had come to the end of what they could say in peace, and said goodbye.

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#7. No one was dead, but her son would not call just to call. She'd had to enter intimate terms with this new understanding in her life, like an illness.

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#8. Only weariness remained. It was a special kind of weariness that descended rarely, according to internal chemical regimens he did not understand. It made striving difficult, but also falsehood.

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#9. A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.

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#10. Can't I?" he said. "Did you know that they fertilized crops with human ash? After the war, the tomatoes were the size of an infant's head." He gave the words the same inflection that his grandfather did, only in English. They had a new but not unfamiliar sound on his tongue. He knew how to say them.

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#11. The rehearsal of Grandfather's arguments came with wondrous facility to Slava.

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#12. Working at the pharmacy, you get the impression that there are no healthy people in the world. The normal condition is not health but illness.

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