Tara Conklin Quotes

#1. It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Did the color of his skin matter? No, Lina decided, wouldn't his racial ambiguity be a strength? Wasn't this a history from which they had all emerged, every American, black and white and every shade in between?

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#3. Let your heart lead you, do not be afraid, for there will be much to regret if reason and sense and fear are your only markers

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#4. ...Lina longed suddenly for a sliver of that must have been her mother's allure, and talent, and passion, and willingness to embrace her own complicated life.

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#5. Is it too much to wish for such a life? Is it too little?

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#6. Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.

Michael Jackson

#7. Reading is the magic key that takes you where you want to be.

Alice Joyce Davidson

#8. People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

Glenway Wescott

#9. Mister hit Josephine with the palm of his hand across her left cheek and it was then she knew she would run.

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#10. Truth was multilayered, shifting; it was different for everyone, each personal history carved unique from the same weighty block of time and flesh.

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#11. The harder road. Because she was a woman? Because she was short? Because her law school ranked top-ten but not top-five? "Hey.

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#12. Just to sit for a moment, herself, no one claiming her time or her thoughts or the product of her mind and hands. What other word to call that if not freedom?

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#13. An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

Rusty Schweickart

#14. Sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

Shelley Winters

#15. There is no other dog that can compare to a Corgi. They're the epitome of beauty.

Tasha Tudor

#16. Could an angler go fishing without a fishing rod, line and hook? It depends what they're fishing for.

Fennel Hudson

#17. If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

Noam Chomsky

#18. It struck Linda suddenly that this was the middle of the night. Even here, in the city that never slept, most people now were sleeping. Law firm time was like casino time, only instead of an endless cocktail hour it was always a neon-bright afternoon. The dead center of the workday, all night long.

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#19. Over the years she had learned to fold down rising emotion just as she would fold the clean bedsheets, the sheet growing smaller and tighter with each pass until all that remained of that wide wrinkled expanse of cotton was a hard closed-in square.

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#20. The things you can control and the things you cannot.

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