Top 37 Ellen Gilchrist Quotes
#1. I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer.
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#2. In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.
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#3. Once a man I was leaving told me I could go if I would leave my skin behind. I was so young I didn't even know that I was wonderful..
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#4. That's great," Katie said. "Actually, it's revolutionary. If you can work and be in love at the same time, you're the first woman I ever knew that could. Maybe you're the missing link, Amanda."
Maybe you ought to get a job for the 'Ladies Home Journal.' They like simplistic shit like that.
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#5. I love New York, but I wish they wouldn't put clothes on their dogs.
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#6. Maybe I only think everyone wants to be a writer because the friends I naturally choose are people who love books. People who love books sooner or later dream of writing them. It's a natural response to stimuli.
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#7. She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.
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#8. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
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#9. Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
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#11. We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.
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#12. It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk from little waxy cartons and Mrs. Jansma would read us chapters from a wonderful book about some children in England that had a bed that took them places at night.
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#13. I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that, but I'm too single-minded. I can't stand to be interrupted, whether I'm writing a story or dressing a child.
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#14. Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.
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#15. I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor.
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#16. Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape
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#17. My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.
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#18. The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now and then.
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#19. I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held them in your arms or dreamed you did. You can forget a lot of things in life, but not that honey to end all honeys.
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#20. Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.
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#22. Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.
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#23. A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.
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#24. At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.
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#25. My ancestors are Highland Scots, and my father's home in north Alabama is so much like northwest Arkansas. I have the same allergies in both places.
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#26. One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.
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#27. I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.
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#29. The human race is just getting started ... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.
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#30. My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.
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#31. The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.
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#32. We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight cold gray rain of Delta summers, wonderful rain. -Mexico
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#33. The human race. You have to love it and wish it well and not preach or think you have any reason to think you are better than anyone else. Amen. Good-bye. Peace.
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#34. Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.
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#35. Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.
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#36. Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.
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#37. I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
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