356 Quotes by Deborah Harkness

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    I am so thrilled to carve out a few minutes to write that I grab it whenever I can.

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    I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was my spectacular mid-life crisis. Some people buy expensive cars, and I wrote a novel.

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    Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts.

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    As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.

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    People think about history as all grand gestures or significant moments, but the most valuable lesson we can learn is the enduring legacy of the small, meaningful things in life.

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