Marianne Wiggins Quotes

#1. I think what you can't see is always what you should be frightened of.

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#2. To make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

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#3. I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

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#4. There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same
fleeting and unknowable
for every one of us. I lived.

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#5. I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

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#6. I will never turn to God.

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#7. It makes you wonder. How much you can know about a thing, a person. If you can know anything at all. Maybe no one's who we think they are. No one. Makes you doubt yourself, wonder if you even know yourself or if you've been lyin, too, along with everybody else.

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#8. Art, their father had frequently told them, was exactly that: to make art is the realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel with and for a stranger.

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#9. You speak your mind, don't you ... ? A rare find in a woman.

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#10. Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

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#11. I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

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#12. Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

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#13. You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occuring.

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#14. I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

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#15. What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

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#16. The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he'd said. The future will always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has run to sea.

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#17. I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

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#18. It's not how long it glows. It's not how long the light lasts. It's what it says while it's still visible.

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#19. To love is to accept that one might die another death before one dies one's own.

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#20. Because way back before you were even born there was this girl you see. And I fell in love with her. It was something that I wanted-love-not because it was expected of me, but because I found it out my self-that happiness of wanting to be with that other person.

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#21. You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

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#22. Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn't like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can't use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.

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