"If writers possess a common temperament, it's that……" — Gail Caldwell
"If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave."
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24 Quotes by Gail Caldwell
Gail Caldwell has 24 quotes on this site.
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Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become…
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My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out…
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What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to…
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You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake…
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The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks…
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The flaw is the thing we love.
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The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
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The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.
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The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to…
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Grief is what tells you who you are alone.
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I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice.
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I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often…
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other…
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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