"Pen-bereavement is a serious matter." — Anne Fadiman
"Pen-bereavement is a serious matter."
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36 Quotes by Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman has 36 quotes on this site.
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Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that…
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I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to…
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For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.
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Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
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It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
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If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone
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One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well…
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Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to…
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In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh…
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Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa,…
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It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious…
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A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback,…
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More Bereavement Quotes
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just…
— Julie Burchill
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your…
— Saul Alinsky
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more…
— James Martineau
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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which…
— William Ralph Inge
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is…
— Anthony Storr
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It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you.…
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
— James Martineau
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All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.
— Debbie Ford
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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of…
— C.S. Lewis
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory…
— Abraham Lincoln
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