Pam Houston Quotes

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• I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't… Been
• There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency.They are such fragile creatures… Ago
• There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and… Big
• People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred… Accumulate
• I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth. Facts
• The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be… Afraid
• Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers. Bozo
• I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation;… Always Part
• Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. Even Stay
• Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing. Gives
• The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts. Ever Stop
• It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it. Balance
• I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for… Always Makes

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