"I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed……" — Melissa Bank
"I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again."
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40 Quotes by Melissa Bank
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During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're…
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I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV…
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I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer…
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It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the…
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I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am,…
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Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my…
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Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never…
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Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid…
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Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The…
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Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days…
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You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.
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I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that…
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
— Margaret Atwood
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
— Richard Bach
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
— Christian Bale
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
— Joey Adams
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
— Martha Beck
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
— Conrad Black
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
— William Blake
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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