"It takes too much imagination to see the……" — Andrew Sean Greer
"It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart."
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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 is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.
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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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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain…
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking…
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,…
— Annie Besant
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness,…
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world…
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
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