"Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life."

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Anne Lamott

#Real Quotes #Real Life Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.”
“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”

Source : Rebecca West (2010). “The Fountain Overflows”, p.153, Open Road Media
“I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.”
“It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.”
“For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination ...”
“If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.”
“I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is a bit self-obsessed. I don't know if I really have a persona, in that respect. I want to just make the music and hide away.”
“You'd be sick if you saw my adidas collection...you would be physically sick if you saw it. I'm not gonna say where it is.”

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