Kim Wright Quotes

#1. It's true," I admit. I put two fingers up to my throat to feel my pulse. "I've never trusted anybody to catch me.

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#2. There's no such thing as fate. It's just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

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#3. For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them.

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#4. If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty ... that all of these things faded in time. They came and went with the impartial cruelty of the Indian sun. But sin and sin alone is eternal.

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#5. I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him across a great ocean.

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#6. And despite it all, he has never been able to abandon hope that his betters will someday notice him. Will someday accept him as one of their own.
It is the failing of his lifetime.

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#7. This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.

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#8. It is not hard to fool people when they do not want to know the truth.

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#9. Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.

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#10. Religion is nothing more than the study of other people's experiences with God. But true spirituality is the opportunity to have your own experience with God.

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#11. Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

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#12. It was the summer just before we both turned twenty. Before life began to chip away at us like a sculptor into marble, reducing us from endless unformed possibility into the women we would ultimately become.

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#13. She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women.

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#14. I expect more from my life than the opportunity to be useful to a man.

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#15. I keep a pen in my hand so that I can underline anything that strikes me as particularly interesting or well written - it's a quirk left over from my days in graduate school.

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#16. You can love one man and leave another and love a man and still leave him and leave a man without ever loving him, you can fuck everybody you meet or live like a nun and in the end you still wind up at Target.

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#17. Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.

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#18. It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people.

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#19. In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay.

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#20. Scoff if you wish, but there is something morally dangerous in this endless variety of amusements that our era claims to provide. Soon there will be no word for "contentment" in the English language, for we shall no longer feel content and thus have no need to describe it.

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#21. I suppose you could even argue that the very act of telling a story is an act of faith...

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