"In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history."

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Source : Anthony Doerr (2010). “About Grace: A Novel”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

Anthony Doerr

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“This is how I define grace: youre on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. Thats where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know Im prepared.”
“College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.”
“When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.”

Source : "You Were Made For This" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.awakin.org. January 28, 2008.
“I wanted to make a lot of good pitches.”
“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”
“Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning.”
“I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!”
“I feel I rise to the occasion when the pressure's on my shoulders.”

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