"I do write by hand. I just think……" — Elizabeth Strout
"I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand."
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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 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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If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the…
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More Bodily Quotes
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
— Samuel Butler
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily…
— Karlheinz Deschner
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The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not…
— Henry M. Morris
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A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with…
— John Climacus
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
— William Butler Yeats
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education;…
— Sissela Bok
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The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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