"It is a brave and stupid thing, a……" — Andrew Sean Greer
"It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love."
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16 Quotes by Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer has 16 quotes on this site.
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How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
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Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for…
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When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.
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It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place,…
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We are each the love of someone's life.
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Some things are so impossible, so fantastic, that when they happen, you are not at all surprised. Their sheer impossibility…
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It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.
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Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty,…
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No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched…
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A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married…
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How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion…
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Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us…
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