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When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.
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When People Leave, They Always Seem To

Jane Smiley
When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.
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I remember the first day i was looking at my hands and i thought about my nails. people wouldn't really be paying attention to that, but a civil war doctor - what would they be doing with their nails? would they cut them really low? and dr. burns said, "no, they would let them grow out so they can scoop stuff out. they would use their nails." so for a while i let my nails grow. they were too long. i kept stabbing myself by accident, so i cut them down, but i was trying to be faithful to the details.
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The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. we live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. as long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. to interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. we have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.
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But i don’t think i’ve ever known such a natural at potions!” said slughorn. “instinctive, you know — like his mother! i’ve only ever taught a few with this kind of ability, i can tell you that, sybill — why even severus —” and to harry’s horror, slughorn threw out an arm and seemed to scoop snape out of thin air toward them.
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I just remember when my first child was born i called the personnel office and i asked them about their leave policies. and they said, "leave policies? women just leave and they don't come back." and i said, "but i want to come back." they said, "we have no leave policy." and then they said, "why don't you apply for disability?" well, having a child is not a disability.
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If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. i mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. the ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. all that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something there, but just because they do, just because they know how to leave something, it doesn't have to be a poem for heaven's sake. it may just be some kind of terribly fascinating, syntaxy droppings--excuse the expression. like manlius and esposito and all those poor men.
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