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— Mavis Gallant

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16 Quotes by Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing…
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed,…
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death.…
No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I…
I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not…
I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this…
There is something I keep wanting to say about reading short stories. I am doing it now, because I many…
She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to…
Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the…
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

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More Aging Quotes

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Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we… — Chinua Achebe
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their… — Margaret Atwood
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to… — Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon

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