Jane Urquhart Quotes

#1. Hardly anybody," he said, "understands how essential shit is to holding things together.

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#2. This was the way it was going to be then, this road she was going to have to walk. She would always be thinking of him so that he would be beside her even when he wasn't there, making her joyous or miserable, but always, always controlling the colour of her days.

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#3. I don't know what I mean, but I know I believe it.

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#4. The lake was a shield of beaten brass flung down in the valley under a full sun.

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#5. And the odd thing was, she was beautiful then. It was her awakening, her ... recovery that made her beautiful. After that she just shone.

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#6. Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another

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#7. What do you do with everything that is cut away? she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life ...

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#8. Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

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#9. Someday," Joseph said to his granddaughter, "someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won't be able to prevent yourself; that's just the way it is. The world always somehow takes us back to the chisel. Something happens and we have to respond.

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#10. They represent the most dangerous kind of shape changers: those who cannot see, because of darkness beyond the gesture of the moment

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#11. Any work of art," said her grandfather,"must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world.

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#12. Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

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#13. Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

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#14. The women of this family leaned towards extremes.

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