"In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter."

-- Annie Proulx

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“Potential is universal. Opportunity is not.”
“If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“She comes back Through blood by blood She returns Cut deep now Like me Humanity saves her Will she save me?”
“I have learned that Godâ€™s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answersâ€”but I do have him.”
“You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.”
“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”
“I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes".
“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”

Source : Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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