"All the best novels are about one thing:……" — Julia Glass
"All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces."
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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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