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Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born.Glenn Haybittle
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It’s our memories that teach us who we are.Glenn Haybittle
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Never leave home without your memories.Glenn Haybittle
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One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.Glenn Haybittle
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To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.Glenn Haybittle
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The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.Glenn Haybittle
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Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.Glenn Haybittle
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Everything sacred begins with a circle of motion.Glenn Haybittle
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There they are. Dancing in a circle. Shadows swinging over the snow. Calling upon the ancestors. Each wearing the sacred shirt. Side stepping to the left in time to the echoing heartbeat of the drums and the echoing yearning of the songs. There they are. Dancing in a circle. Shadows swinging over the firelit snow. Calling upon the ancestors. Expecting something wonderful to happen. Everyone singing. We will live again. We will live again.Glenn Haybittle
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If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?Glenn Haybittle
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It’s in our dreams that we pull people towards us.Glenn Haybittle
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At that moment the ghost dance seems to Zinnia like the relationship of two people who never quite consummate the love they feel for each other.Glenn Haybittle
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Every night I build a fire for you, Alowa. Every night I dance on the rooftop for you. Look at the flames, Alowa. Aren’t they beautiful? Look at the smoke. I’m dancing in the smoke, Alowa.Glenn Haybittle
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The cabinets and shelves are a bright busy choreography of oils, shampoos, conditioners, scrubs, lotions, salts, unguents. Zinnia loves buying pots and bottles and tubes of alchemised essences that smell like yearning or intimacy on the skin.Glenn Haybittle