"She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient."

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Source : Mavis Gallant (2011). “Varieties of Exile”, p.200, New York Review of Books

Mavis Gallant

#Girl Quotes #Patience Quotes #Dream Quotes

“Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.”
“Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.”
“The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.”
“If there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.”
“Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.”
“A lot of these gadgets and pieces of technology we use become almost like friends to us, and we expect our friends to have voices.”
“There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.”
“If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.”

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