"If it hadn't been what it was, it…" — Megan Abbott
"If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful."
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10 Quotes by Megan Abbott
Megan Abbott has 10 quotes on this site.
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The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless…
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Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling…
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Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always…
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I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.
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I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always…
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I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place,…
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I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about…
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There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.
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No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the…
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More Beautiful Quotes
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
— Hannah Arendt
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able…
— Alexis Arguello
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a…
— David Attenborough
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
— John James Audubon
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
— Saint Augustine
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about…
— Paul Auster
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
— Diane Ackerman
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
— Diane Ackerman
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