"A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later."

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Source : Alice McDermott (2013). “A Bigamist's Daughter”, p.82, A&C Black

Alice McDermott

#Sooner Or Later Quotes

“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.”
Alice McDermott

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com
“There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.”
Alice McDermott
“Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.”
Alice McDermott

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.226, eBookIt.com
“Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.”
Alice McDermott
“With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.”
Alice McDermott

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