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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
-Marge Piercy
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Writing Is A Futile Attempt To Preserve

Marge Piercy
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. all that remains of my mother is what i remember and what i have written for and about her. eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. i serve her with my words. so long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. as do we writers, saying with our life's work, remember. remember us. remember me.
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