"No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist except in my mind I have a feeling of sadness, looking around for them, as if the half-empty cafe were a place I had once come to with friends who had all moved away."

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Source : "The Hunger Diaries" by Mavis Gallant, www.newyorker.com. July 9, 2012.

Mavis Gallant

#Real Quotes #Sadness Quotes #People Quotes

“While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.”
“There's no question that the striving, the stuff that you got out of [sports]. The depending on someone right beside you. Sitting here and calling on yourself when you're tired or getting through something painful, watching your teammates do the same. Everybody feels good when you first walk out there.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“A real man makes his own luck,”
“Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.”
“To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.”

Source : James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.30
“I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!”
“In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.”
“Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.”

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