"I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents."

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Source : "Real-life romance" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

Anne-Marie Duff

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Worry Quotes

“I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.”
“My life isn't interesting! It's my mom. You need to write her life and put me in it. I'm a cameo in her life.”
“This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.”
“Claire was struggling through last summerâ€™s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragonâ€™s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.”
“Thereâ€™s a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.”
“When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we spend together at the kitchen table, the more how-to books appear in the stores and on our bookshelves. But reading such books is a very different thing than listening to someone' s lived experience. Because we have stopped listening to each other we may even have forgotten how to listen, stopped learning how to recognize meaning and fill ourselves from the ordinary events of our lives. We have become solitary; readers and watchers rather than sharers and participants.”
“In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.”
“So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places.”

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