"I'm so interested in the fact that we really don't know anybody. We think we know the people close to us, but we don't, we really don't."

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Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.themorningnews.org. August 26, 2008.

Elizabeth Strout

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Facts Quotes

“I want to feel that my characters evolved into a place that they deserved, that was sometimes unexpected, but where I would feel satiated that logically they have come to a conclusion that makes me feel satisfied.”

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“Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.”
“I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'”
“Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually,”
“I love all the different ways that New Yorkers show their individuality through what they choose to wear.”

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“My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'”
“We live in a world where in the movie you can disembowel someone in a youth hostel in Romania, but you can't show people having sex. I think it's weird.”
“I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.”

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