Top 53 Jane Hamilton Quotes

#1. We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

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#2. He wore binoculars around his neck the way librarians wear their glasses.

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#3. I didn't know how to tell him that I hadn't lost the instinct to survive and yet at the same time I didn't feel much need for self-preservation, that somehow there was a distinction between the two.

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#4. In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.

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#5. 'Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!

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#6. It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

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#7. And I didn't know if the forgiveness itself was light, glittery stuff that showered down and absolved a person and set them free, or if, instead, it was heavy, cumbersome, a new debt, a currency that was continuously renewed no matter how much was paid out.

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#8. It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable - like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

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#9. In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.

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#10. We are part of each other's live in much the same way a lover is only slightly beneath closed lids in sleep.

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#11. He wondered if somewhere far off, defying the laws of science, Mitch's two screams were still echoing, if those vibrations had traveled into space, if they moved on and on like rays in a light-year. There might be other forms of life who were receiving the noise and trying to interpret the tones.

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#12. I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.

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#13. It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

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#14. It must be strange to keep your strong mind in a body that grows older and weaker and no longer resembles your own image of yourself.

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#15. From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.

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#16. She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.

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#17. We didn't have a TV until I was 12.

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#18. I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once, you know what the pull of gravity feels like. And you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room.

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#19. Emma, Emma, Emma, I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.

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#20. In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

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#21. It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

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#22. A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.

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#23. All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.

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#24. Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped.

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#25. I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

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#26. This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

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#27. Author tours used to have a sense of excitement and pleasure, a sense of occasion. I remember stores having a table with wine and food. It was just a real evening.

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#28. I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.

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#29. People want to be artists but don't want to do the ground work.

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#30. Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world.

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#31. Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.

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#32. You have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help ... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.

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#33. He half believed [...] that love was capable of killing a person, and that even a worm, digesting the particularly bitter juices, could distinguish a dead corpse from love.

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#34. I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it.

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#35. As a species, we would not have survived without humor.

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#36. In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility.

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#37. I will hear a noise, like a fish jumping, and when I look I'll see Lizzy coming to the surface, shaking off her pink scales, finding her new arms to do the breaststroke to shore.

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#38. The law of thermodynamics, you know, the idea that nothing is lost, that a loss in one area equals a gain in the other, was actually not invented by scientists but by the people who write redemptive fiction. [...] Actually, in real life, we lose things all the time and they're gone. Lost, period.

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#39. He thought there must be a place, like a dead-letter office, where everyone's longing went, yearning that was sent out, day after day. He thought it must collect somewhere, in a dank basement room, the mass of it rising and rising like water, and with no end in sight.

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#40. It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into his shirt and hide for the rest of one's natural life.

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#41. I experienced unrequited love early.

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#42. I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.

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#43. She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

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#44. Sometimes people choose one person in a crowd to pick at. It makes them feel better to say how there's one entirely rotten person they can blame everything on.

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#45. My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

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#46. I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.

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#47. Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

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#48. I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

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#49. There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.

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#50. I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.

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#51. Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

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#52. I'm really glad I had those years working on the orchard alongside my husband.

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#53. I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.

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