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Mary Ruefle has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.
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The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.
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My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.
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Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage,…
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I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an…
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I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.
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In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way…
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There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing…
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There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave…
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The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect,…
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If we knew the value of suffering, we would ask for it.
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In the end I would rather wonder than know
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their…
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Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me…
— Leon Uris
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror…
— Karin Slaughter
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A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have…
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