Maureen Howard Quotes

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• I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.
• It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate bone structure and…
• The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.
• I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized…
• Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.
• There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.
• The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the…
• When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until there…
• If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his…
• To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story…
• Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?
• None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.
• Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and…
• The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us.

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