Catherine Lowell Quotes

#1. His expression was impassive. Somewhere, I just knew, he must have a slew of illegitimate children, all named Bartholomew.

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#2. Nothing, I learned, brings you into the present quite like holding hands. The past seemed irrelevant; the future, unnecessary.

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#3. My stories were not very good. They didn't have much of a story line, and, in the way of all serious fiction, they ended with the untimely deaths of everyone.

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#4. I used the phrases Jungian realism and linear archetypes, and congratulated myself on achieving a level of douchbaggery I had previously only witnessed in shampoo commercials for men.

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#5. I realized that my life of late had consisted of far too much dialogue and not enough exposition. I imagined an angry, bespectacled English teacher slashing his pen through the transcript of my life, wondering how someone could possibly say so much and think so little.

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#6. My father used to say that all protagonists were versions of the author who wrote them - even if it meant the author had to acknowledge a side of himself that he did not know existed. It just required courage.

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#7. The curtains were blood-red and drawn. This was not an office. It was a small library, two storeys high, with thin ladders and impractical balconies and an expansive ceiling featuring a gaggle of naked Greeks. It was the sort of library you'd marry a man for.

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#8. Usually, meaning tends to find you, in the middle of the night, and when you least expect it.

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#9. I call that creativity," Orville said. "The purpose of literature is to teach you how to THINK, not how to be practical. Learning to discover the connective tissue between seemingly unrelated events is the only way we are equipped to understand patterns in the real world.

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#10. We entered a vast, bottomless silence. I scrambled for better conversation topics. This all would have been far less stressful in the movie version of our lives. The long silences would have been edited out.

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#11. I had injected more of myself than I had ever intended into our nonexistent relationship. Now I would have to relocate the bits and pieces of myself that I had lost, and put myself back together, like a waterlogged puzzle whose pieces didn't quite fit anymore.

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#12. When you are older, you will realize that the things you feel to be true don't require verbal confirmation.

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#13. Are there any leading men in your life?"

"Several, but they're all fictional.

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#14. An imagination left alone in the dark can be a terrible thing.

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#15. Once a book has left the brain of the author, it took on a life of its own, and served as the only liaison between the reader and the author. If you read carefully, the book could tell you all sorts of secrets-sometimes about its characters, and sometimes about its creator.

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#16. A new adaptation of Jane Eyre came out every year, and every year it was exactly the same. An unknown actress would play Jane, and she was usually prettier than she should have been. A very handsome, very brooding, very 'ooh-la-la' man would play Rochester, and Judi Dench would play everyone else.

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#17. The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.

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#18. Never underestimate the sacrifices you will make for love . . .

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#19. The fiction feels more real than the reality.

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#20. Isn't there some truth in all fiction?" "There's some fiction in all truth too.

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#21. You'd be amazed to discover all the tangible things that can come out of dreams." "Like drool?

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#22. Focused men are painfully attractive.

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#23. There was no romantic ending for Charlotte, but that's where writing your own novel can be so useful.

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#24. [T]o tell a good story, you need courage. Courage to fully become someone else, even if -- and especially if -- that person was a more vulnerable version of yourself.

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#25. Wuthering Heights, considered the most romantic book ever written by those who had never read it carefully.

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