"Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape."

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Source : Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mary Cantwell

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