44 Quotes by Gail Caldwell

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    Grief doesn’t necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear...

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    The truth, or success, of any writer’s story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

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    The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses the heartbreak within. A deal that seems to be the price we pay for getting to hold on to our beloved dead.

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    The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. – GEORGE ELIOT, Scenes of Clerical Life.

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    If writers possess a common temperament, it’s that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

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    Mostly I couldn’t bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead.

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    That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her.

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