Harriet Doerr famous quotes
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During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.
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You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.
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I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.
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I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it to the work of a stone cutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it.
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The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home."
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One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.
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memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
-- Harriet Doerr
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is...
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Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
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To justify God's ways to man.
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
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War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.
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You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
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Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,
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