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During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But…
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I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on…
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I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has…
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It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and…
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I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as…
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I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what…
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Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns…
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Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to…
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Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less…
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Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character…
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Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours.…
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You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus],…
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I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on…
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Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.
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We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have…
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In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always…
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I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.
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I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
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I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of…
— Ken Follett
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Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams.…
— George Steiner
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I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in…
— Siobhan Fahey
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