22 Quotes by Edith Pearlman
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Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?
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He gave her that last word. He gave her his love. He would think of her almost every day for the rest of his life. Only his presence would he withhold.
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It was as if she had once been almost smothered and then allowed to live only if she limited her vocabulary and breathed hardly at all.
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They were relieved that I was chosen by a human being,” she’d said to Angelica in her dry voice. “They were braced for an interspecies liaison.
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But you said the words you knew, which were not always the ones you meant.
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What a rich phrase. You could live a life on the income it yielded.
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There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
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