Lifetime Quote by Gail Godwin

“None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.”

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“I contemplated how I was going to get through the rest of the day and felt the onset of a terror I thought I had outgrown. I hated it when these clusters started to form. One unwelcome subject sought out its counterparts—farewells, people leaving and never coming back, ambulances… And then those counterparts attracted similar old hurts and horrors until…

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“People commit thousands of small suicides every day that go unnoticed”

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There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more surprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing... They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new…

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Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.

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The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion…

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“Other people don’t exist when you’re not with them.”

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I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

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The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

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During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

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“Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say…

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People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

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A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely…

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Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live…

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If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has…

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