Kevin Brockmeier Quotes

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• People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it…
• With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you don’t so much…
• There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like…
• A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh.…
• Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that…
• Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats.…
• There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.
• ...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended…
• You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it,…
• You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely…
• How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter,…
• Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go…
• She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.
• It's like you're born with all these blessings, only you don't realize they're blessings until you lose them. And if you're thick-headed enough, like me,…
• Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be…
• Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass.…
• The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.
• I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot…
• I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.
• I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of the first page.

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