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When you feel the need to moan and groan, laugh with woeful recognition and eat flaky pastries. If you hear yourself taking the art of complaining a little too seriously, ask yourself what you're trying to accomplish, exactly.

~Amity Gaige

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It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.

~Amity Gaige

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If you could literally 'rid' yourself of your problems by voicing them, I'd be all for it. But since that isn't so, why not reserve the spoken word for functional interactions and witticisms, if not declarations of love?

~Amity Gaige

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My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.

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In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Apartment Assistance Bricks Buildings Cities Coal Epic Lines Made Mutual Name Notorious Obedient Occupy Office Outside Post Post Office Radioactive Smoke Soviet Soviet Union Union Until Would

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I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.

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It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.

~Amity Gaige

Topics: Before Comedy Continue Creating Culture Democracy Endure Evolve First Goes Literature Must Political Saying Stable Without

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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