"The belief that life was hard and often……" — Gail Caldwell
"The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come out scorched but still breathing."
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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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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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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
— James A. Baldwin
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain…
— Gerry Adams
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking…
— Drew Barrymore
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
— Scott Adams
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,…
— Annie Besant
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness,…
— Buffalo Bill
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world…
— Tony Blair
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
— Erma Bombeck
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