161 Quotes by Annie Proulx

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it.

If you can’t fix it, you have to stand it.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they’ll be in the right place.

And I think that’s important, to know how the water’s gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

It’s easier to die if others around you are dying.

Nothing in the natural world, no forest, no river, no insect nor leaf has any intrinsic value to men. All is worthless, utterly dispensable unless we discover some benefit to ourselves in it – even the most ardent forest lover thinks this way. Men behave as overlords. They decide what will flourish and what will die. I believe that humankind is evolving into a terrible new species and I am sorry that I am one of them.

We’re all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.