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“I have researched aboriginal culture, Mayan hieroglyphics and the corporate culture of a Japanese car manufacturer, and I have written essays on the internal logic of various other societies, but I haven't a clue about my own logic.”

Logic Anthropology Deborah Levy Hot Milk

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“We have to mourn our dead, but we cannot let them take over our life.”

Life Death Mourn Deborah Levy Hot Milk

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“My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out smoke. Like a volcano. Like a monster. I want to fume. I do not want to be the girl whose job it is to wail in a high-pitched voice at funerals.”

Girl Smoke Deborah Levy Hot Milk

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“How do we set about not imagining something?”

Imagining Deborah Levy Hot Milk

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“What is a sigh? That would be another good subject for a field study. Is it just a long, deep, audible exhalation of breath? Rose's sigh was intense but not subdued. It was frustrated but not yet sad. A sigh resets the respiratory system so it was possible that my mother had been holding her breath, which suggests she was more nervous than she appeared to be. A sigh is an emotional response to being set a difficult task.”

Sigh Deborah Levy Hot Milk

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“Time has shattered, it's cracked like my lips.”

Time Deborah Levy Hot Milk

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“Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.”

Wind Trees Deborah Levy Hot Milk

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