Rosellen Brown Quotes

#1. One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.

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#2. Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince.

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#3. [On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

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#4. They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

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#5. Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world.

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#6. All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

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#7. The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

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#8. When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

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