"It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, world view and thoughts."

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Source : "Close Range". Interview with Matthew Testa, www.cityweekly.net. June 11, 2007.

Annie Proulx

#Views Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”

Source : John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”
“One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.”

Source : Melanie Klein, Juliet Mitchell (1987). “Selected Melanie Klein”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.”
“She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.”
“I don't watch that much football... I really like to play it.”
“I'm not a real gadgety person. But bottle opener is probably the gadget I can't live without. Actually, I can open a bottle of beer pretty easily without it, but wine is always too much of a pain in the (rear) to open that up. So a corkscrew is probably the gadget that I can't live without.”
“They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal, forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: 'I fill this great empty space with a beautiful name.'”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.105, Univ of California Press
“Jobs are a key essential in the Budget.They are government's number one priority and the Budget is going to reflect that.”

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