"Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes,……" — Elizabeth Strout
"Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything"
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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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More Boxes Quotes
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one of 1,285 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
— Margaret Atwood
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I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of…
— Cecil Beaton
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
— Richie Benaud
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I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs'…
— Halle Berry
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I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a…
— Jeff Bezos
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I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in…
— Erma Bombeck
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I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car,…
— Elayne Boosler
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I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom…
— Christina Aguilera
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