Karen Elizabeth Gordon quotes
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“Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.”
-- Karen Elizabeth GordonSource : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”
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“We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.”
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“Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?”
-- Karen Elizabeth GordonSource : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”
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“Time is the mother and mugger of us all.”
-- Karen Elizabeth GordonSource : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.”
-- Karen Elizabeth GordonSource : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”
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“A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.”
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“Art is only abstract when you look the other way.”
-- Karen Elizabeth GordonSource : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”
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“Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.”
-- Karen Elizabeth GordonSource : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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