Jim Crace Quotes
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...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.
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Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.
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I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate novel about the young women of modern America, their friendships, their betrayals, and their anxious cravings for everything from sex to pastry.
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Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.
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These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.
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Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.
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To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.
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There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.
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There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.
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My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.
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