"People like to think the younger generation's job……" — Elizabeth Strout
"People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is it? They're hopeful and good - and that's how it should be."
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52 Quotes by Elizabeth Strout
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The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.
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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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If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the…
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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