Edith Pearlman Quotes

#1. I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do?

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#2. It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

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#3. But you said the words you knew, which were not always the ones you meant.

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#4. Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?

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#5. They were relieved that I was chosen by a human being," she'd said to Angelica in her dry voice. "They were braced for an interspecies liaison.

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#6. He gave her that last word. He gave her his love. He would think of her almost every day for the rest of his life. Only his presence would he withhold.

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#7. What counted was how you behaved while death let you live, and how you met death when life released you.

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#8. It was as if she had once been almost smothered and then allowed to live only if she limited her vocabulary and breathed hardly at all.

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#9. What a rich phrase. You could live a life on the income it yielded.

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#10. Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics
reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

Edith Pearlman