"So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if……" — Sara Gruen
"So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?"
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77 Quotes by Sara Gruen
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I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am…
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I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It…
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Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes I can't find myself any more. When did I stop being…
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I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.
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Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical…
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The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.
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... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or…
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I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:
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I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three…
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I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
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You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
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