"In one day I had altered my life;……" — Carol Shields
"In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will."
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18 Quotes by Carol Shields
Carol Shields has 18 quotes on this site.
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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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Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang…
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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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In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)-…
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People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great…
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The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary…
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