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> [Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make money, to keep a record of our time on earth and in dream, and to leave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/unlike-lions-and-dogs-we-are-a-dissenting-animal-we-need-to-dissent/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

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## More by Carol Bly

> [The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/the-secret-of-literature-which-conventional-people-don-t-guess-is/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/the-more-original-a-short-story-writer-the-odder-looking-the/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/the-principle-of-literature-is-devotion-to-the-particulars-of-life/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/no-work-of-literature-is-the-product-of-only-one-or-two-conscious/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/emily-was-feeling-the-elation-of-conscientious-hosts-when-they-can/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/for-a-short-story-writer-a-story-is-the-combination-of-what-the/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/an-essay-is-a-work-of-literary-art-which-has-a-minimum-of-one/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all of us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/there-isn-t-a-thought-or-feeling-that-doesn-t-alter-or-deepen-when/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/unlike-lions-and-dogs-we-are-a-dissenting-animal-we-need-to-dissent/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/literature-has-low-enough-standards-but-we-can-avoid-writing-the/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/the-six-and-one-fourth-hours-television-watching-the-american-average/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/i-don-t-engage-in-self-censorship-but-i-do-change-everybody-to-have/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [“It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/it-is-very-difficult-to-teach-navigation-theory-to-someone-who-clings/)

[Carol Bly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-bly/)

> [“Here is the crux of it: between the conscious and unconscious mind we are more complex and given to concept than we are just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/here-is-the-crux-of-it-between-the-conscious-and-unconscious-mind-we/)

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> [No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-bly/no-one-is-shallow-and-vulgar-forever-sooner-or-later-the-whole/)

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