"When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this……" — Andrew Sean Greer
"When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?"
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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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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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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
— Christian Bale
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the…
— J. G. Ballard
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
— Drew Barrymore
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Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of…
— Scott Adams
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
— Warren G. Bennis
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua…
— Warren G. Bennis
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Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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