Top 36 Therese Anne Fowler Quotes
#2. If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.
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#3. There's nothing like losing yourself in someone else's troubles to make you forget your own.
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#4. I've come to wonder whether artists in particular seek out hard times the way flowers turn their faces toward the sun.
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#5. We glared at each other then, with the kind of hatred that comes from being deliberately wounded in one's softest, most vulnerable places by a person who used to love you passionately.
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#6. There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.
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#7. Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.
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#8. I'm Alabama-born, so a transplant here - but I think I could enjoy growing some roots.
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#9. There would be too much everything and not enough anything, and then where would that leave us?
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#10. This was Scott. This is Scott, always looking back to try to figure out how to go forward, where happiness and prosperity must surely await.
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#11. Not all writers want to be profound (though an awful lot of them do); some want to entertain, some want to inform; some are trying to provoke the most basic, universal feeling using a minimum of words-I think of Emily Dickinson -to demonstrate how it is to be human in our crazy world today.
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#12. He believed, as I did, that we are helpless to resist or influence what our hearts are bound to do. - Z - A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
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#13. His eyes, grayish green in that light, reminded me of the rare icicle in Montgomery, or a pebbled creek's rushing stream in early spring. They revealed his intelligence in a way that made me want to dive inside his head and swim in its depths.
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#15. -no, I was a strange new Zelda Sayre released from all constrictions, drunk with the timeless rhythms of sea and sun and passion, more daring and oblivious to danger than I'd ever been before.
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#16. Nothing except luck protects you from catastrophe. Not love. Not money. Not faith. Not a pure heart or good deeds
and not bad ones either, for that matter. We can, any of us, be laid low, cut down, diminished, destroyed.
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#18. When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
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#20. Women are formed for love, yes, but also for purpose, and the highest state for a woman - for all humans, in fact - comes when one discovers and then achieves one's ultimate purpose.
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#21. Life's most profound moments were, paradoxically, its most common ones: first breaths, and last.
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#24. Consider: The mouth is the only bit of erotic landscape visible when a woman is dressed. It is the symbol of every moist cavern a woman possesses, which all men are bound to seek out, we have no choice.
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#26. I could focus again on why we'd all come here in the first place. I could focus on Scott. How handsome and distinguished he looked in his dark gray suit, a finer cut than I'd seen him in before. He looked like the man he said he was going to be, and I thought, I will never doubt him again.
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#27. In my experience, there were two kinds of men. One type - no matter how plain or how poor he might be - is always willing to at least try his luck with an attractive girl. The other type looks upon all of those first types with envy.
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#29. Maybe I ought to have put her together with Coco, who might have enlightened us both about the impracticality and undesirability of giving one's whole self to any man - for all the good it would have done.
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#30. Won't we be quite the pair? - you with your bad heart, me with my bad head. Together, though, we might have something worthwhile.
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#31. This is what we've got at the moment, who we are. It's not nearly what we once had- the good, I mean- but it's also not what we once had, meaning the bad.
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#32. He smiled then, and I felt that smile like a vibration moving through me, the way you might feel if you walked through a ghost or it walked through you.
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#33. Critics were rigid and hidebound, never willing to give due credit for anything that didn't fit in with their predetermined parameters of what fiction ought to be.
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#35. A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.
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#36. You - and I'll venture every third writer in Europe nowadays - fancies himself a poet, when all you're doing is building little towers of words set prettily on a page.
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