Marianne Wiggins Quotes

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• There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of…
• Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos…
• I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.
• What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between…
• Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words…
• I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.
• I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.
• I will never turn to God.
• I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
• I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in…
• Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I…
• I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of…
• Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first…
• ...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.
• You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.
• You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

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