"When I meet a woman whose energy falters……" — Andrew Sean Greer
"When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother."
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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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It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place,…
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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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The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing…
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I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on…
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes,…
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Josh wanted to be the one to break the color barrier. When the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson he knew it…
— Unknown Author
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We…
— Brian Day
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words,…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire…
— Jean de Joinville
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We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as…
— Margaret Fuller
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You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and…
— Robert Waterman McChesney
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Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse…
— Amy Goodman
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Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be…
— Rajneesh
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Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my…
— C.S. Lewis
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