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“I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.”
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Nancy Horan
Source : Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.145, Ballantine Books
#Stupid Quotes
#Love You Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.”
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Nancy Horan
Source : Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books
#Memories Quotes
#Past Quotes
#Order Quotes
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“It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me.”
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Nancy Horan
#Focus Quotes
#Pages Quotes
#World Quotes
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“I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials.”
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Nancy Horan
#Reading Quotes
#Use Quotes
#Biographies Quotes
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“In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.”
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Nancy Horan
#Kindness Quotes
#Littles Quotes
#Matter Quotes
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“It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.”
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Nancy Horan
Source : Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.16, Ballantine Books
#Self Quotes
#Different Quotes
#Exile Quotes
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“Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your eyes and seems to be the only human being who ever understood the real you.”
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Nancy Horan
Source : Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.67, Ballantine Books
#Real Quotes
#Eye Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.”
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Nancy Horan
Source : Nancy Horan (2012). “Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.174, Ballantine Books
#Effort Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#Behavior Quotes
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“What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books.”
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Nancy Horan
Source : Nancy Horan (2012). “Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.320, Ballantine Books
#Book Quotes
#Weather Quotes
#Water Quotes
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“I'm like the trunk of a cactus... I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for awhile until I get thirsty again.”
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Nancy Horan
Source : Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.16, Ballantine Books
#Retreat Quotes
#Culture Quotes
#Cactus Quotes
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“It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.”
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Nancy Horan
Source : Nancy Horan (2012). “Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.88, Ballantine Books
#Wonderful Quotes
#Feels Quotes
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“I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank”
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Nancy Horan
#Rivers Quotes
#Swim Quotes
#Want Quotes
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