"We face up to awful things because we……" — Annie Proulx
"We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things."
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40 Quotes by Annie Proulx
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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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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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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Confine yourself to the present.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
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