It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground.Richard Ford
You turn away from being a professional, from the expectations of your parents, and that can be daunting. Because Eudora made it as a writer and lived in Jackson, it made that decision a whole lot more tenable.
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It was trainer error when he was pulled up last time at Perth. I ran him too quickly, but it had looked an easy race.
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It's not surprising. A lot of blacks didn't get to go to school. They were kept from being educated. It hasn't been a question of talent, it's been a question of opportunity.
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