Karen Elizabeth Gordon Quotes

#1. Time is the mother and mugger of us all.

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#2. A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

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#3. She wrapped herself up in an enigma; there was no other way to keep warm.

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#4. Killing time takes practice.

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#5. We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

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#6. All phone calls are obscene.

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#7. Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

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#8. Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.

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#9. Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

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#10. Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

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#11. Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.

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#12. We waltzed Lisztlessly.

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#13. Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.

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