Christine Schutt quotes
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“I still go to bed in mascara on the chance I'll be seen a lover.”
-- Christine SchuttSource : Christine Schutt (2012). “Prosperous Friends”, p.164, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson's first collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, can mend a broken world.”
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“A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters, in search of completion and contentment, must wrestle with that prerequisite of faith: a willingness to believe in the unseen.”
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“A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.”
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“Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.”
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“I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances”
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Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.23, Baker Books
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“One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.”
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“Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.”
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