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Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it

Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.

Claire Vaye Watkins
Memories, Wife, Kitchen
Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.26, Granta Books

Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.

Claire Vaye Watkins
Love Is, Sometimes, Time Love
Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.28, Granta Books

A promise unkept will take a man's mind.

Claire Vaye Watkins
Men, Promise, Mind
Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.181, Granta Books

What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can’t be mass marketed.

Claire Vaye Watkins
Expression, Essentials, Incredibles

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