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This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing. — Miriam Toews

I couldn't see him but I could hear him snoring softly, humming, like a little airplane lost in the clouds. — Miriam Toews

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West. — Miriam Makeba

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies. — Miriam Toews

We don't choose the books we write; they choose us. — Miriam Toews

Leadership is knowing what you want and making it happen. — Miriam Colon

I'm not really a practising Jew but I keep a kosher kitchen just to spite Hitler. — Miriam Margolyes

Books are what save us. Books are what don't save us. — Miriam Toews

My thoughts are like quick little fish that swim out of my grasp. — Miriam Makeba

Why write? Life is a cage of empty words. — Miriam Elia

Are you having a midlife crisis?" Miriam asked.
"I'm eighteen."
"I know. But you've always been advanced. — J.C. Geiger

I understand that if you say a certain word over and over and it begins to make you feel bad then you should goddamn stop saying that word. — Miriam Toews

Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever. — Miriam

I must say, I find everything interesting. — Miriam

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities. — Miriam Allen De Ford

This is Miss Suzy's house", said the captain, drawing his sword. "Will you go peaceably, or must we fight? — Miriam Young

Being seasick at sea is not the same as being homesick at home. — Miriam Toews

Let's not have forced gaiety this Christmas, said Nora, like it was a dish. We'll have a tiny bit of it, I said. — Miriam Toews

Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter. — Miriam Toews

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief. — Miriam Toews

Go into hard things quickly, eagerly, then retreat. — Miriam Toews

And what have you been up to? she asked.
Oh, I don't know really, I said. Not much. Learning how to be a good loser. — Miriam Toews

Maybe she was enjoying a moment in her life, a sliver of light, a flash memory of one of her kids, something sweet and approaching reality. — Miriam Toews

The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome. — S.A. Tawks

You always say oh, that's so unprofessional as though there's some definition of professional that's also a moral imperative for how to behave. — Miriam Toews

A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

If life deals you prunes, make pastries! They are surprisingly delicious, but most won't even take the time to learn this. — Miriam L. Jacobs

My mother's name was Miriam, but most people called her Mim. — Ruth Reichl

It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them. — Miriam Toews

Public enemy number one for these men was a girl with a book — Miriam Toews

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself — Miriam Toews

No type of therapy compares to accomplishing heavy and intimidating goals. — Miriam Khalladi

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.' — Miriam Defensor Santiago

Understanding Subtle & Not-So-Subtle Motivations, Helps Grow Consideration, Empathy & Compassion, Which Leads to Forgiveness — Miriam Sachael

A smart wife is one who makes sure she spends so much that her husband can't afford another woman. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

That to truly know happiness is to know the fleeting nature of everything, joy, pain, safety and happiness itself. — Miriam Toews

The director said he's got a haunted soul and a natural sweetness. — Miriam Toews

Do you feel that we can rebel against our oppressors without losing our love, our tolerance, and our ability to forgive? — Miriam Toews

In a corrupt country, if you want to succeed in politics, you must keep your conscience under control. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters. — Miriam Toews

He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using. — Miriam Toews

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me. — Miriam Makeba

Miriam Sacher had survived polio as a child. To Abraham, she was simply the most exquisite little bird who could not fly. — Guillermo Del Toro

How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives? — Miriam Hopkins

You can't force someone to love you. All you can do is be lovable, then hope for the best". — Miriam Polli

Why is it so painful to write about people who aren't assholes? I asked Wilson.
Because I would start to love them, he said. — Miriam Toews

What's more, she lacked the good sense to understand how our lives are enriched by the minor interactions that present themselves every day. — Miriam Karmel

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others. — Miriam Toews

Real life is like that - it does not follow a neat plan. sometimes you have to get things very messily wrong so you can see how to get them right. — Miriam Morrison

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly. — Miriam Makeba

He says it's a condition of our relationship that I don't smoke, she says. We laugh. We are tired. Too tired to confront conditions. — Miriam Toews

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world. — Miriam Makeba

You put the fist in pacifist? — Miriam Toews

Can't you just be like the rest of us, normal and sad and fucked up and alive and remorseful? — Miriam Toews

And all our righteousnesses are filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our inequities like the wind have taken us away — Miriam Toews

There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine. — Miriam Toews

Remember what mom used to say? "Shred the guilt. — Miriam Toews

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. — Miriam Toews

I look at the past and I see myself. — Miriam Makeba

That's wonderful. And what did you do with the money? — Miriam Hopkins

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart. — Miriam Makeba

I eat death threats for breakfast! — Miriam Defensor Santiago

If a man's kiss burns like fire, his love will be true, but if his kiss burns like ice...his love will bring pain and ruin. — Miriam Minger

Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else. — Dean Koontz

When I put the poncho on to show Elf she said farewell to arms. — Miriam Toews

There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls. — Miriam Makeba

She lived in her head and that's why it glowed. — Miriam Toews

Do you know that hobo is an acronym for Homeward Bound? — Miriam Toews

If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head. — Miriam Toews

I do not subscribe to the school of thought that I am leading the presidential polls because of my beautiful legs. — Miriam

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic ... — Miriam Toews

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. — Miriam Toews

Awesome people come in shy packages. — Miriam Shattuck

And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled? — Mordecai Richler

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth. — Miriam Makeba

Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important. — Miriam Schapiro

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look. — Miriam Makeba

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions. — Miriam Toews

My mother was so confident of being rescued in life, one way or another or another. — Miriam Toews

Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people. — Miriam Schapiro

And I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore? — Miriam Toews

Shoo the sparrow away and get on with supper. This is the first part of my new life strategy. — Miriam Toews

It is vital to avoid mediocrity - living a life of deadness in someone else's threadbare world. — Miriam A. Walker

At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead. — Miriam Toews

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song. — Miriam Makeba

Jewish tradition holds that, given a choice between life and death, one should always choose life. — Miriam M. Brysk

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. — Miriam Makeba

My words aren't only words. They're pictures and tears and imperfect offerings of love and self-inflicted shots to my brain. — Miriam Toews

Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life. — Miriam Toews

I believe I can sing anything. — Miriam Makeba

Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody. — Miriam Defensor Santiago

The Sleep lasted six hours. For most of that time John lay beside Miriam watching the shadows. — Whitley Strieber

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them — Miriam Makeba

You still have to eat. — Miriam Toews

They say nothing is my fault, and I wish they wouldn't say that. How can a man be forgiven if nothing is his fault? — Miriam Toews

A chill crawls up Miriam's spine. A parade of baby spiders. — Chuck Wendig

It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now. — Miriam Makeba

I want her face to feel at home on an ancient coin, he said. I want her eyes to harm me. — Miriam Toews