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Annie Proulx quotes: The windows of his house shone in the darkness like squares of melting butter. The windows of his house shone in the darkness like squares of melting butter.
Annie Proulx quotes: Their faces were scarified in hideous whorls and dots. As for clothing, they dressed in vegetable matter. Another Their faces were scarified in hideous whorls and dots. As for clothing, they dressed in vegetable matter. Another
Annie Proulx quotes: The only cities were of ice, bergs with cores of beryl, blue gems within white gems, that some said gave off an odor of almonds. The only cities were of ice, bergs with cores of beryl, blue gems within white gems, that some said gave off an odor of almonds.
Annie Proulx quotes: You are a knowledgeable girl," he said, "and a damn good-lookin one, though upholstered. Care for a beer? You are a knowledgeable girl," he said, "and a damn good-lookin one, though upholstered. Care for a beer?
Annie Proulx quotes: We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up. We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
Annie Proulx quotes: I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience. I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.
Annie Proulx quotes: What we fear we often rage against. What we fear we often rage against.
Annie Proulx quotes: By January it had always been winter. By January it had always been winter.
Annie Proulx quotes: You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation. You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation.
Annie Proulx quotes: Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading. Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.
Annie Proulx quotes: You know, the Chinese have forgotten more about sailing than the rest of the world ever knew. You know, the Chinese have forgotten more about sailing than the rest of the world ever knew.
Annie Proulx quotes: All must pay the debt of nature. All must pay the debt of nature.
Annie Proulx quotes: 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. 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.
Annie Proulx quotes: I play the fiddle ... I'm not much to listen to yet, but we got no mice in our house. I play the fiddle ... I'm not much to listen to yet, but we got no mice in our house.
Annie Proulx quotes: One thing never changed: the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings was darkened by the sense of time flying, never enough time, never enough. One thing never changed: the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings was darkened by the sense of time flying, never enough time, never enough.
Annie Proulx quotes: Where are the reporters of yesteryear?' he muttered, 'the nail biting, acerbic, alcoholic nighthawk bastards who truly knew how to write? Where are the reporters of yesteryear?' he muttered, 'the nail biting, acerbic, alcoholic nighthawk bastards who truly knew how to write?
Annie Proulx quotes: If a piece ofknotted string can unleash the wind and if a drowned man can awaken ... then I believe a broken man can heal. If a piece ofknotted string can unleash the wind and if a drowned man can awaken ... then I believe a broken man can heal.
Annie Proulx quotes: For Quoyle was a failure at loneliness, yearned to be gregarious, to know his company was a pleasure to others. For Quoyle was a failure at loneliness, yearned to be gregarious, to know his company was a pleasure to others.
Annie Proulx quotes: The world is a staircase," hissed the accordion maker in the darkness. "Some go up and some come down. We must ascend. The world is a staircase," hissed the accordion maker in the darkness. "Some go up and some come down. We must ascend.
Annie Proulx quotes: Quoyle saw his life might be spent in the company of dynasitc dogs named Warren. Quoyle saw his life might be spent in the company of dynasitc dogs named Warren.
Annie Proulx quotes: Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain. Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain.
Annie Proulx quotes: Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives. Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives.
Annie Proulx quotes: In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed. In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.
Annie Proulx quotes: Nothing ended, nothing begun, nothing resolved. Nothing ended, nothing begun, nothing resolved.
Annie Proulx quotes: If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards. If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
Annie Proulx quotes: The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it. The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it.
Annie Proulx quotes: The forest had many edges, like a lace altarpiece. The forest had many edges, like a lace altarpiece.
Annie Proulx quotes: The house was heavy around him, the pressure of the past filling the rooms like odorless gas. The house was heavy around him, the pressure of the past filling the rooms like odorless gas.
Annie Proulx quotes: In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
Annie Proulx quotes: You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
Annie Proulx quotes: He had wanted to be a sophomore. He had wanted to be a sophomore.
Annie Proulx quotes: A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction. A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
Annie Proulx quotes: It's easier to die if others around you are dying. It's easier to die if others around you are dying.
Annie Proulx quotes: All them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them All them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them
Annie Proulx quotes: And so my father changed his name to William Pretty and here he grew up and led an independent life. And if it was not happy, he didn't know it. And so my father changed his name to William Pretty and here he grew up and led an independent life. And if it was not happy, he didn't know it.
Annie Proulx quotes: Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror ... Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror ...
Annie Proulx quotes: The interior of the station wagon smelled of human hair. The interior of the station wagon smelled of human hair.
Annie Proulx quotes: if you can't fix it you got a stand it. if you can't fix it you got a stand it.
Annie Proulx quotes: There are four women in every man's heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman. There are four women in every man's heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.
Annie Proulx quotes: Strikes, eases, dies, leaves a temporary silence. Strikes, eases, dies, leaves a temporary silence.
Annie Proulx quotes: It takes a year, nephew ... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone. It takes a year, nephew ... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
Annie Proulx quotes: If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place. If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
Annie Proulx quotes: December brought stone-silent days though a fresh odor came from the heavy sky, the smell of cold purity that was the essence of the boreal forest. So December brought stone-silent days though a fresh odor came from the heavy sky, the smell of cold purity that was the essence of the boreal forest. So
Annie Proulx quotes: He had a feel for silence, for leading to an unsounded note the listener yearned for ... He had a feel for silence, for leading to an unsounded note the listener yearned for ...
Annie Proulx quotes: All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle. All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.
Annie Proulx quotes: Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis. Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
Annie Proulx quotes: If you can't fix it, you have to stand it. If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.
Annie Proulx quotes: Hell was a great fiery-hot music hall, he thought, where untuned instruments scraped and shrieked in diabolical cacophany ... Hell was a great fiery-hot music hall, he thought, where untuned instruments scraped and shrieked in diabolical cacophany ...
Annie Proulx quotes: Home after midnight from a debate on the wording of a minor municipal bylaw on bottle recycling, he felt like he was a pin in the hinge of power. Home after midnight from a debate on the wording of a minor municipal bylaw on bottle recycling, he felt like he was a pin in the hinge of power.
Annie Proulx quotes: I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Annie Proulx quotes: Warren made bursting noises under the bed. A rancorous stench. Dog Farts Fell Family of Four. Warren made bursting noises under the bed. A rancorous stench. Dog Farts Fell Family of Four.
Annie Proulx quotes: Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton ... Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton ...
Annie Proulx quotes: That old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong .. That old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong ..
Annie Proulx quotes: Secretly he was pleased to own a horse with the sand to eat a raw cowboy. Secretly he was pleased to own a horse with the sand to eat a raw cowboy.
Annie Proulx quotes: I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language
Annie Proulx quotes: And he would wake sometimes in grief, sometimes with the old sense of joy and release; the pillow sometimes wet, sometimes the sheets. And he would wake sometimes in grief, sometimes with the old sense of joy and release; the pillow sometimes wet, sometimes the sheets.
Annie Proulx quotes: And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
Annie Proulx quotes: The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening. The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.
Annie Proulx quotes: I would rather be dead than not read I would rather be dead than not read
Annie Proulx quotes: Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once. Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.
Annie Proulx quotes: Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle. Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.
Annie Proulx quotes: There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering. There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering.
Annie Proulx quotes: The room stank of semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old carpet and sour hay, saddle leather, shit and cheap soap. The room stank of semen and smoke and sweat and whiskey, of old carpet and sour hay, saddle leather, shit and cheap soap.
Annie Proulx quotes: The past bubbled out of his black mouth. The past bubbled out of his black mouth.

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