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In 2021, we wouldn't talk about 'getting' a way of thinking from one's mother. We'd talk about inheriting it. But other than that, I'm shaken by how contemporary this interview sounds.

It'd be enlightening and nuanced even if this interview was occurring today.

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A quote that's made a permanent home in my brain:

"I was constantly reading, but not things that were assigned.
And if I read things that were assigned I didn't read them the way we were supposed to. Everything was like a poem, with different curves, different levels. So I always felt that the ways I took things in were different from the ways other people took them in. I used to practice trying to think."

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More on thinking:

Lorde: I used to practice trying to think.
Rich: That thing those other people presumably did. Do you remember what that was like?
Lorde: Yes. I had an image of trying to reach something around a corner, that it was just eluding me. The image was constantly vanishing around the corner.

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On social cues:
"You always learned from observing. You have to pick things up nonverbally because people will never tell you what you're supposed to know. You have to get it for yourself: whatever it is that you need in order to survive. And if you make a mistake you get punished for it, but that's no big thing. You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for. This is the way genuine learning takes place."