Carol Emshwiller Quotes

• Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.

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  Snakes   Elephants   Grace  

  Carol Emshwiller (2004). “Carmen Dog”, p.158, Small Beer Press

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• Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.

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  Mean   Writing   Secret  

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• I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

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  Writing   Ideas   Phrases  

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• May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

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  Real   Self   Joy  

  Carol Emshwiller (2013). “Carmen Dog”, p.78, Small Beer Press

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• I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.

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  Grateful   Afar   Kind  

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• Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!

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  Art   Real   Thinking  

  Carol Emshwiller (2013). “Carmen Dog”, p.92, Small Beer Press

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