Marian Engel quotes

“Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.”
-- Marian Engel

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“There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.”
-- Marian Engel

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“Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.”
-- Marian Engel

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“I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.”
-- Marian Engel

Source : Marian Engel (1985). “The Tattooed Woman”, Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada

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“All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.”
-- Marian Engel

Source : Marian Engel (1968). “No Clouds of Glory”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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“There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.”
-- Marian Engel

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“There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.”

“Let me explain it to you then. I just had a beautiful girl trust me enough to touch her and see her in a way no one else ever has. I got to hold her and watch her and feel her as she came apart in my arms. It was like nothing else I'd ever experienced. She was breathtaking and she was responding to me. She wanted me. I was the one making her spiral out of control.”

“O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

“I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.”

“Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.307

“Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.”

Source : "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VII, Chapter 3, 1735.

“Decisions are made by those who show up.”

Source : Aaron Sorkin (2002). “The West Wing”

“Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.”

“I'm not making every decision due to my children. But I do hope they never see some movies I'm doing. But I do want to do more family-friendly movies.”

“Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.”