"Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you……" — Carol Shields
"Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life."
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18 Quotes by Carol Shields
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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
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It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything,…
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This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.
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Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.
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nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped…
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In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out…
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Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish…
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So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody…
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Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.
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Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts…
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Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been…
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Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
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