E Annie Proulx Quotes

#1. The past bubbled out of his black mouth.

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#2. Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives.

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#3. They say that doing ten sums a day prevents you from becoming senile. But by that argument bankers should be geniuses. That's not right. Thickest heads in the world.

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#4. The huge sadness of the northern plains rolled down on him
and
There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe,but nothing could be done about it,and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
Close Range, Brokeback Mountain and other stories.

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#5. Especially since I don't want that vinyl stuff outside. 'Oh,' he says, 'that vinyl siding makes a warm house, never has to be painted, you can buy it on time.' I said I wouldn't have it on my coffin." She

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#6. If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.

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#7. And so my father changed his name to William Pretty and here he grew up and led an independent life. And if it was not happy, he didn't know it.

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#8. Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

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#9. All them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them

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#10. You got to think a musical instrument is human or, anyway, alive ... You take a fiddle now, we say it has a neck, and in the human neck what do you find? Vocal cords like strings, where the sound comes from.

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#11. The only cities were of ice, bergs with cores of beryl, blue gems within white gems, that some said gave off an odor of almonds.

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#12. As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.

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#13. Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror ...

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#14. December brought stone-silent days though a fresh odor came from the heavy sky, the smell of cold purity that was the essence of the boreal forest. So

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#15. Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

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#16. Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew and bushes with spiky branches. One day a red motor car drove past. In the backseat was
a grey gypsy dog wearing a gold earring.

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#17. Quoyle saw his life might be spent in the company of dynasitc dogs named Warren.

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#18. The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.

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#19. The old forests are going and once they are gone we will have to wait a thousand years or more to see their like. Though nothing will be allowed such a generous measure of time to grow.

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#20. If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

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#21. Strikes, eases, dies, leaves a temporary silence.

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#22. There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.

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#23. Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.

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#24. When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow.

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#25. The room stank of semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old carpet and sour hay, saddle leather, shit and cheap soap.

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#26. For Archie was an expert in dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

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#27. There are four women in every man's heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.

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#28. A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

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#29. And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

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#30. Home after midnight from a debate on the wording of a minor municipal bylaw on bottle recycling, he felt like he was a pin in the hinge of power.

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