"She had the loaded handbag of someone who……" — Mavis Gallant
"She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies."
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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 write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.
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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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More Camping Quotes
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one of 81 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on…
— Dave Barry
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Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
— Dave Barry
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The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.
— Dave Barry
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The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at…
— Henry David Thoreau
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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain.
— Casper Van Dien
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Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.
— Ric Keller
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We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around…
— Jack Handey
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Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by…
— Peter Agre
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I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then…
— Lou Henry Hoover
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I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.
— Colleen Haskell
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