"I write every day as a matter of……" — Mavis Gallant
"I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live."
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16 Quotes by Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant has 16 quotes on this site.
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Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled...
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I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing…
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Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
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All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed,…
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Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death.…
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No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I…
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I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not…
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I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this…
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There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many…
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She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to…
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Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the…
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A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare…
— Michele Bachmann
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest…
— Lord Acton
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
— Lord Acton
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Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
— David Bailey
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What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent…
— Bob Beauprez
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The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet…
— John Berger
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The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight…
— Vinoba Bhave
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The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things…
— Theodor Adorno
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'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We…
— Joe Biden
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