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“When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”
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Margaret Laurence
#Jobs Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Mean Quotes
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“In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.”
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Margaret Laurence
Source : Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press
#Sorry Quotes
#Apology Quotes
#House Quotes
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“Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.”
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Margaret Laurence
Source : Margaret Laurence (1993). “A Jest of God”, p.66, University of Chicago Press
#Holiday Quotes
#Vacation Quotes
#Novelty Quotes
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“As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.”
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Margaret Laurence
#Environment Quotes
#Should Quotes
#Radical Quotes
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“Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.”
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Margaret Laurence
#Unique Quotes
#World Quotes
#Spirituality Quotes
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“It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.”
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Margaret Laurence
#Party Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Struggle Quotes
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“Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.”
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Margaret Laurence
Source : Margaret Laurence, Nora Foster Stovel (2001). “Long Drums and Cannons”, p.38, University of Alberta
#Fear Quotes
#Pride Quotes
#Wilderness Quotes
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“Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.”
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Margaret Laurence
Source : Margaret Laurence, George Woodcock (1983). “A Place to stand on: essays by and about Margaret Laurence”
#Believe Quotes
#I Believe Quotes
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“I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and would know how to cope with everything and my kids would rise up and call me blessed. Now I see that whatever I'm like, I'm pretty well stuck with it for life. Hell of a revelation that turned out to be.”
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Margaret Laurence
#Wise Quotes
#Blessed Quotes
#Kids Quotes
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“I am rampant with memory.”
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Margaret Laurence
Source : Margaret Laurence (2016). “The Stone Angel”, p.9, Head of Zeus
#Memories Quotes
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“Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.”
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Margaret Laurence
Source : 1964 The Stone Angel, ch.4.
#Real Quotes
#Heaven Quotes
#Gold Quotes
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“Why doesn't Prin go and get her own ***** blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?”
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Margaret Laurence
Source : Margaret Laurence (1974). “The Diviners”, p.36, University of Chicago Press
#Jelly Quotes
#Doughnut Quotes
#Bloody Quotes
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“Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.”
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Margaret Laurence
Source : Margaret Laurence (1989). “Dance on the earth: a memoir”, McClelland and Stewart
#Grief Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Joy Quotes
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“Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.”
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Margaret Laurence
Source : 1964 The Stone Angel, ch.1.
#Privilege Quotes
#Privacy Quotes
#Granted Quotes
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“Follow your heart, and you perish.”
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Margaret Laurence
#Friendship Quotes
#Heart Quotes
#Follow Your Heart Quotes
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“The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.”
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Margaret Laurence
Source : Margaret Laurence (2016). “The Stone Angel”, p.165, Head of Zeus
#Grief Quotes
#Blessing Quotes
#Bears Quotes
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“I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.”
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Margaret Laurence
Source : Margaret Laurence (2016). “The Stone Angel”, p.89, Head of Zeus
#Believe Quotes
#Accepting Quotes
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“What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.”
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Margaret Laurence
Source : Margaret Laurence (2010). “The Fire-Dwellers”, p.30, New Canadian Library
#Goes On Quotes
