There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact. . . . … - Emily Carr

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When I was pregnant, I couldn't wear fragrance. I couldn't smell anything. I couldn't smell flowers, I was very sensitive to everything. I could smell orange juice from across the room and I remember thinking, 'I will throw up. '

Emily Carr

There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact. . . . The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

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I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

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I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

Envelopes, Everybody, Lick, Made, Privacy, Thrust

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

Artist, Religion, Religious, Sincere, Think, Thinking

I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.

Clung, Density, Earth, Juice, Volume

The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.

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