Bobbie Ann Mason quotes
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“One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.”
-- Bobbie Ann MasonSource : Bobbie Ann Mason (2013). “Clear Springs: A Memoir”, p.385, Random House
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“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
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“I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.”
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“I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.”
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“I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.”
-- Bobbie Ann Mason
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“Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.”
Source : "A comforting way of death" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2002.
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Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.
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“Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.”
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