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Vivian Gornick

Approaching Eye Level 1996

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  • Sandra Sánchezhas quoted3 years ago
    Others made me a slave but I must squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.
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    I discovered that people introduced subjects in order to allude, not to discuss.
  • Sandra Sánchezhas quoted3 years ago
    For each man the sentences the other spoke had become an infliction – and then a wound.
  • Sandra Sánchezhas quoted3 years ago
    people speak to transmit information, not to connect.
  • Sandra Sánchezhas quoted3 years ago
    It was a period of exile not because of the inability to connect but because I was unable to talk about the inability to connect. Whenever I raised the matter my colleagues looked at me: first puzzled, then uneasy, then dismissive. I was making a great deal out of not very much, I was told.
  • Sandra Sánchezhas quoted3 years ago
    All I know is that in their company I felt abstract, and in mine they felt the same.
  • Sandra Sánchezhas quoted3 years ago
    In the presence of shared temperament conversation almost never loses its free, unguarded flow.
  • Sandra Sánchezhas quoted3 years ago
    Good conversation is dependent on a simple but mysterious fit of mind and spirit that cannot be achieved, it just occurs. It’s not a matter of mutual interests or class concerns or commonly held ideals, it’s a matter of temperament; the thing that makes someone respond instinctively with an appreciative ‘I know just what you mean’, rather than a challenging ‘What do you mean by that?’
  • Sandra Sánchezhas quoted3 years ago
    In friendship as in love, peace is required as well as excitement. Unless both are present, the graft does not take.
  • Sandra Sánchezhas quoted3 years ago
    Connected to myself, I am now connected to others. Solitude is relieved. I am at peace inside my skin.
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