Sean Wilsey Quotes

#1. Writing is controlled substance. It acts with the least mediation and strongest effect.

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#2. My parents created their own war.

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#3. It's been hard. My mother is proud of me, but her reaction swings wildly from day to day. I don't really take her point of view. I'm hard on her. And that's hard to read.

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#4. There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.

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#5. Underneath the professional smiles there is a sadness in this country that is sunk so deep in the culture you can taste it in your morning Cheerios.

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#6. We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows
a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we.

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#7. Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that knowledge away.

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#8. A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.

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#9. That's why she felt entitled to be filthy rich. It explains and excuses a lot. She didn't want money because money was power; she wanted it because she'd been poor, and money cures poverty. [ ... ] But beauty is like money from God. And Mom has always been beautiful.

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