Elizabeth Strout
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I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exa... ELIZABETH STROUT I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never ... ELIZABETH STROUT I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in p... ELIZABETH STROUT I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to g... ELIZABETH STROUT You could buy a snow blower or a nice wool dress for your wife, but beneath it all people were rats ... ELIZABETH STROUT In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New Englan... ELIZABETH STROUT But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how ma... ELIZABETH STROUT I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, an... ELIZABETH STROUT Annie, who up until this very day had always felt like a child--which is why she could not marry, sh... ELIZABETH STROUT I was doing what I have done for most of my life, which is to cover for the mistakes of others when ... ELIZABETH STROUT I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subwa... ELIZABETH STROUT I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different ... ELIZABETH STROUT I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bo... ELIZABETH STROUT You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world. ELIZABETH STROUT There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, midd... ELIZABETH STROUT But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, ... ELIZABETH STROUT She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148) ELIZABETH STROUT What young people didn't know, she thought, lying down beside this man, his hand on her shoulder, he... ELIZABETH STROUT What young people didn’t know, she thought, lying down beside this man, his hand on her shoulder, ... ELIZABETH STROUT I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another i... ELIZABETH STROUT The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether... ELIZABETH STROUT Bullies are just frightened people. ELIZABETH STROUT I'm writing for my ideal reader, for somebody who's willing to take the time, who's will... ELIZABETH STROUT I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went t... ELIZABETH STROUT Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do... ELIZABETH STROUT I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it... ELIZABETH STROUT Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly b... ELIZABETH STROUT In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own k... ELIZABETH STROUT I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sens... ELIZABETH STROUT I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many ... ELIZABETH STROUT If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewa... ELIZABETH STROUT Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed... 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I'm just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out - that's whe... 
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We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-w... 
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. 
I'm a puzzle doer. 
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers. 
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times. 
So much to do, so little done, such things to be. 
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! 
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. 
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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. 
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. 
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I feel like I don't understand time in novels, really. I bumble forward, is all. 
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. 
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. 
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Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu... 
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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! 
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it... 
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster... 
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Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked. 
Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No... 
The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating 
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Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, b... 
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Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa... 
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The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good! 
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. 
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He who angers you conquers you. 
When I dream, I am ageless. 