"The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living."

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Source : Margaret Laurence (2016). “The Stone Angel”, p.165, Head of Zeus

Margaret Laurence

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“But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.”
“There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.”

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“I have no agenda - just to be loved. Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.”
“Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.”
“True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.”
“Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.”
“Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.”
“There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.”

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