"A fine memoir is to a fine novel……" — Julia Glass
"A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art."
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39 Quotes by Julia Glass
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And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture?…
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It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved,…
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I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.
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I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs,…
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Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were…
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But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.
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Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.
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All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to…
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When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.
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Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse.…
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Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.
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Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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