"My idea of a productive day, as both……" — Gail Caldwell
"My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window."
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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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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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Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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