"My preference is for prose with more silence……" — Anthony Doerr
"My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness."
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30 Quotes by Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr has 30 quotes on this site.
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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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I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful…
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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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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
— Edward Bach
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by…
— James A. Baldwin
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
— Samuel Beckett
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information…
— Todd Akin
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Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who…
— Benjamin Carson
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.…
— Margaret Fuller
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Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.
— Baizhang Huaihai
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The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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