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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
