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Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.

ELLEN GILCHRIST, Good Housekeeping, May 2011

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

ELLEN GILCHRIST, Falling Through Space

It is extremely hard to have a funeral when you don't have anything to bury.

ELLEN GILCHRIST, A Dangerous Age

I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.

ELLEN GILCHRIST, Falling Through Space

Maybe you have to wait for happiness. Maybe the rest is only words.

ELLEN GILCHRIST, The Writing Life

The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.

ELLEN GILCHRIST, A Dangerous Age

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

ELLEN GILCHRIST, Falling Through Space

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

ELLEN GILCHRIST, The Writing Life

I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held them in your arms or dreamed you did. You can forget a lot of things in life, but not that honey to end all honeys.

ELLEN GILCHRIST, A Dangerous Age


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