"He had never thought of himself as much……" — Elizabeth George
"He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy."
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19 Quotes by Elizabeth George
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Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present…
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Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to…
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She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had…
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I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
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Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
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I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
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I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by…
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It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of…
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Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It…
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Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at…
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The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
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More Anguish Quotes
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
— Balthus
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
— Roger Caras
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The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists,…
— Nick Cave
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
— Leonard Cohen
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what…
— Aberjhani
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all…
— Hermann Hesse
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Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night,…
— Morrie Schwartz
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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