Jim Crace quotes
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“There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.”
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“There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.”
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“...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.”
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“These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.”
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“Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.”
-- Jim CraceSource : Jim Crace (2013). “Harvest”, p.20, Pan Macmillan
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“Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.”
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“I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate novel about the young women of modern America, their friendships, their betrayals, and their anxious cravings for everything from sex to pastry.”
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“To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.”
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“Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.”
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“My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.”
-- Jim Crace
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