"This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]"

-- Dani Shapiro

#Sadness Quotes #Pockets Quotes #Stones Quotes

“I definitely feel like when I write a book it's not my job to police or guide the readers. The book and the characters don't belong to me anymore. If that makes sense.”

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“Hate engenders loneliness and despair”
“Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.”
“There's always an opportunity to make a difference”
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”
“Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.”
“The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.”
“God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.”

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