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Anthony Doerr has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took…
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I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would…
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Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that…
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Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into…
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Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
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Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
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Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over…
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We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract.…
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I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins.…
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The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true…
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I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up…
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So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?
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If it must be done, it's best done bravely.
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Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.
— Anthony Doerr
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It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking…
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Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but…
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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines…
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The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people,…
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That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.
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In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S.…
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