"Literature can teach us how to live before……" — Jayne Anne Phillips
"Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter."
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Jayne Anne Phillips
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18 Quotes by Jayne Anne Phillips
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Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
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The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.
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Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
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The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and…
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Talk between women friends is always therapy...
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If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and…
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Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.
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If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version…
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When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.
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That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents…
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Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
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I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
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