"I used to think...that I had to be……" — Anthony Doerr
"I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn't want to spend it all in one place...But now I know that life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we're all very lucky to be part of something like that."
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Anthony Doerr
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30 Quotes by Anthony Doerr
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My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say,…
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I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my…
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Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care…
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Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might…
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Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
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Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
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Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new…
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We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add…
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The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This…
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I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of…
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So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of…
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My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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