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Elizabeth McCracken has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.
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Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are…
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For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed…
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All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch,…
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Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James…
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Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would…
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After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For…
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A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human,…
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The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and…
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but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer…
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truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful…
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I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love -…
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One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside, more and…
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If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience,…
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If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.
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A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop…
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When a thing bores you, do not do it.
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If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only…
— Francois Fenelon
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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading…
— Doris Lessing
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Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge,…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty…
— Doris Lessing
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