Maile Meloy quotes
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“At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.”
-- Maile MeloySource : Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.161, Canongate Books
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“His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.”
-- Maile MeloySource : Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.173, Canongate Books
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“The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?”
-- Maile MeloySource : Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.197, Canongate Books
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“To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?”
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“Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.”
-- Maile MeloySource : Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.70, Canongate Books
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“I settled in with The Uninvited Guests thinking I knew what kind of Edwardian pleasures were in store: the fraught dinner party in an endangered, rambling house, the feuding family, the rich suitor, the disruptive visitors. The novel has all of those delightful things, but it also defied every one of my expectations. I saw none of it coming. I read it in one breathless sitting, and finished wanting to give it to everyone I know.”
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“When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment, Steven watched the protests and the preparations with interest. The bird people were furious, the developers unmovable, and Steven was filled with relief that the fight wasn't his. Nothing here was his... He thought there should have been something sad about how little he was tied up with the place, but instead it felt like freedom. He was free because it wasn't his water here, and they weren't his fish.”
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“The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.”
-- Maile MeloySource : "The Proxy Marriage" by Maile Meloy, www.newyorker.com. May 21, 2012.
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Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
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“Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.”
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“The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.”
Source : Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books
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“One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.”
Source : Alan Furst (2007). “The World at Night: A Novel”, p.9, Random House
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“I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve”
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