"It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I……" — Maureen Howard
"It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate bone structure and a healthy head of hair."
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14 Quotes by Maureen Howard
Maureen Howard has 14 quotes on this site.
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I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together,…
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The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but…
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I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my…
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Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of…
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There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.
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The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father…
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When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender…
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If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a…
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To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It…
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Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?
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None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.
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Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our…
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More Bone Quotes
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to…
— Jo Brand
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My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire…
— Gisele Bundchen
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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog.…
— John Jay Chapman
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Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind…
— Margaret Cho
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It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money…
— Joan D. Chittister
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Thus is Jesus in all respects fitted for his mighty work of redeeming. He is very man and very God.…
— Horatius Bonar
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A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth.…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp -…
— Linda Evangelista
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and…
— Rita Mae Brown
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I don't believe that there's anyone in the world without a competitive bone in their body.
— Shannon Miller
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Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
— Henry David Thoreau
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