"There are chapters in every life which are……" — Carol Shields
"There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud."
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18 Quotes by Carol Shields
Carol Shields has 18 quotes on this site.
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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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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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More Aloud Quotes
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
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I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the…
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's…
— Alexander MacLaren
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We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe…
— Geronimo
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Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they…
— Marilyn Jager Adams
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There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and…
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The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity…
— Albert Camus
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But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him.…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too…
— Irving Stone
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Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I…
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