Bookish People Quotes by Carol Shields

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

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