"And it was too late. No one wants……" — Elizabeth Strout
"And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is."
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52 Quotes by Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout has 52 quotes on this site.
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The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.
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People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is…
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Traits don't change, states of mind do.
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The appetites of the body were private battles.
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The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.
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In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To…
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By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone.…
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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point…
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He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had…
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I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a…
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I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted…
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I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means…
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It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and…
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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming,…
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In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls…
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We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive…
— Alan Watts
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People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat…
— Kathleen Winter
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A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at…
— Edward P. Jones
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He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete.…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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