Black Swans: Stories
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apartment black ... , jealousy sure is a mad dog from hell with rabies. "
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" I don’t know what Freud could have been thinking when he used such a dainty word, “sibling,” for the razor-blade-in-the-heart feeling I got whenever the word “sister” was mentioned. "
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" Children, as we all remember, are the ones most impaled on the sharp
recognition of jealousy. If love and comfort are combined to mean a sort of
ring of safety, then anything that endangers that safety, like a sister or
brother or parents all dressed up to go out and leave us all alone, will clot
our innocent, childish, valentine natures with murderous rages. When my
parents first brought my one-week-old sister home from the hospital, I, aged
three, declared, “Throw her in the waste-paper basket.” They thought it was
funny. But I knew what I meant ... "
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" The thing about jealousy that makes it so confusing is that it throws us
out of civilization and beyond the bonds of humanity and allows us to
believe that crimes like suicide and murder and spying are necessary. "
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" ... actual humanity triumphed over rage and hatred, something we hardly imagine in our wildest hopes. "
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" Sometimes I think that jealousy, like skiing, is only for those with enough youthful stamina and energy to endure it. As people get older, they finally give jealousy up, or at least they put it off for as long as possible until there’s such incontrovertible evidence ... that there’s nothing to do but rise above it or succumb. "
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