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Mavis Gallant quotes: She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

Mavis Gallant quotes: Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.

Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.

Mavis Gallant quotes: Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.

Mavis Gallant quotes: Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled ...

Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled ...

Mavis Gallant quotes: A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.

Mavis Gallant quotes: [My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.

Mavis Gallant quotes: Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

Mavis Gallant quotes: A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

Mavis Gallant quotes: Appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.

Appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.

Mavis Gallant quotes: There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: "pedestrian-traffic residue".

There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: "pedestrian-traffic residue".

Mavis Gallant quotes: All immigration is based on misapprehension.

All immigration is based on misapprehension.

Mavis Gallant quotes: The older I get the more grateful I am not to be told how everything comes out.

The older I get the more grateful I am not to be told how everything comes out.

Mavis Gallant quotes: All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.

Mavis Gallant quotes: Spring had been the season for dying in the old days. Invalids who had struggled through the dark comfort of winter took fright as the night receded.

Spring had been the season for dying in the old days. Invalids who had struggled through the dark comfort of winter took fright as the night receded.

Mavis Gallant quotes: I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.

I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.