"The past is a very determined ghost, haunting……" — Laura Miller
"The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets."
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39 Quotes by Laura Miller
Laura Miller has 39 quotes on this site.
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Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
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Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who…
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Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.
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Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult…
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The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall…
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Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
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If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's…
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There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.
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The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art…
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Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in…
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It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach,…
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The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.
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More Chance Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those…
— Adam Arkin
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
— Jane Austen
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
— Paul Auster
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance…
— Oksana Baiul
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites…
— Ansel Adams
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be…
— Ernie Banks
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