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It tells so much about the mother's relationship with her children, and it's done in such a quiet way.
(It's what social novelists, even mystically minded ones, always do: J. D. Salinger doesn't like food, either, but the fact that his characters are eating snails or Swiss-cheese sandwiches tells so much about them that it must be noted, and felt, like every other detail).
A story Riley often tells, so much so that she is tired of it by now, is about being in Italy in 1960 and becoming transfixed when a squall obscured the black-and-white marble pattern of the paving in a piazza.
"It tells so much more than a photo on Instagram," Instagram designer Tim Van Damme recently told Della Faille.
He tells little with words but tells so much with presence and clues.
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"The scans can only tell so much.
She had more to tell, so much more.
These stories aren't told so much as gestured toward.
Statistics can only tell so much of any story: words and pictures move us most.
("You can tell so much from a very small detail," she said).
"You look in their fridge, and you can tell so much.
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