"Walking on the land or digging in the……" — Annie Proulx
"Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on."
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40 Quotes by Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx has 40 quotes on this site.
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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations…
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather…
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But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The…
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Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
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If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to…
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In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
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If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
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I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.
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Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.
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What we fear we often rage against.
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If a piece ofknotted string can unleash the wind and if a drowned man can awaken... then I believe a…
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I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short…
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
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As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential…
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
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Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body
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We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion.…
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your…
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Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.
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A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result…
— P T Barnum
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There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise…
— Unknown Author
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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