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What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.


Alice McDermott

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LINDA MCDERMOTT Trial counsel could have used Heaton's admissions to argue reasonable doubt as to the prosecution's ...
LINDA MCDERMOTT He is real anxious about the appeal.
LINDA MCDERMOTT I certainly don't think our client is going to be executed on Tuesday. It's very likely that we're g...
LINDA MCDERMOTT It's likely we will ultimately end up with the same result.
LINDA MCDERMOTT We will certainly be asking to join that petition. We will be asking for a stay.
LINDA MCDERMOTT I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I w...
CHARLIE MCDERMOTT I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!
CHARLIE MCDERMOTT We have been able to start a program for elementary school children with TUSD.
JUDY MCDERMOTT More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament.
JUDY MCDERMOTT The economic impact, obviously, is enormous for the area. The national television coverage is for al...
JUDY MCDERMOTT This is a very strong field, with winners of majors, and some of the top up-and-coming golfers.
JUDY MCDERMOTT Everything Ashley Humphrey did was this guy's fault. Blame it on Mr. Humphrey.
JOSEPH MCDERMOTT It sounds like a long time and it is a long time, but it is not death.
JOSEPH MCDERMOTT He's not willing to pay for a study if the decision has already been made.
JOE MCDERMOTT Well, I think the cell phone calls, the letters that he wrote in jail, those were pretty damaging. A...
JOE MCDERMOTT So now everybody who paid higher taxes has to go back and recalculate 2002 taxes.
JOE MCDERMOTT This is a challenge for tax practitioners now, too.
JOE MCDERMOTT The state can't take that hit all at once.
JOE MCDERMOTT Heating relief or exemption is a very hot topic ... especially for people on fixed incomes.
JOE MCDERMOTT We did some of these cosmetic-type improvements so when people come to the grounds, not only do they...
JOE MCDERMOTT When a family comes in, they're getting more for their money.
JOE MCDERMOTT This is my 18th fair and I've never heard as much buzz about this one and the previous one.
JOE MCDERMOTT I don't think he's as bad of a guy as what the D.A.'s office wants to say.
SEAN MCDERMOTT Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim...
ALICE WALKER I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire...
ALICE WALKER It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated...
ALICE WALKER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new ...
ALICE DREGER One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of i...
ALICE OSWALD The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ...
ALICE OSWALD I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor...
ALICE WALTON It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
ALICE WALKER I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
ALICE SEBOLD