Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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with the modesty of later-in-life

Think think, talk talk, that’s you, stop it! Come on, kid, he said, touching my knee, my thigh, breast, all the outsides of love. So we lay down beside one another to make a child, with the modesty of later-in-life, which has so much history and erotic knowledge but doesn’t always use it.

—p.206 Later the Same Day Listening (199) by Grace Paley
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this is in order to encourage the young

But they’re right, I said in my turn. Yes, and this is in order to encourage the young whom we have, after all, brought into the world—they must not be abandoned. We must, I said, continue pointing out simple and worthwhile sights such as—in the countryside—hills folding into one another in light-g…

—p.204 Listening (199) by Grace Paley
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they never bother anymore to dash to the windows

Many of these Chinese artists (mostly men and some women) flew back and forth from American coast to coast so often (sometimes stopping in Iowa City) that they were no longer interested in window seats but slept on the aisle or across the fat center where the armrests can be adjusted … while the gr…

—p.189 The Expensive Moment (179) by Grace Paley