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Book: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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  1. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    You know how everything seems so normal when you're growing up," she asked plaintively, "and then comes this moment when you realize your whole family is nuts?
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  2. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.
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  3. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.
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  4. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.
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  5. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
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  6. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.
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  7. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?
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  8. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.
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  9. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.
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  10. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look.
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  11. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    Language does this to our memories-simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.
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  12. Karen Joy Fowler _ We Are All Completely Beside

    In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'
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