Isobelle Carmody Quotes
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Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
Happened
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The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad…
Comfort
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The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
Allows
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Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same…
Allow
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The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person got a speck in their…
All
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My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could…
Authority
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Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors…
Beast
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Maruman does not loll.
Doe
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You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to…
Answer
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The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this…
Better
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Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
Certain
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Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.
Faults
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Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.
Alloted
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Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully
Been
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The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
Deepest
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Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a…
Careful
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Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
Him
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My heart belongs to you,' He promised. 'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?' 'I have always loved you. Even before I…
Always Loved
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Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.
Belong
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That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.
Became
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