Andrew Sean Greer quotes

We are each the love of someone's life. (Andrew Sean Greer)
When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming? View quote
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So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman. View quote
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How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone. View quote
Andrew Sean Greer
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart. View quote
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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love. View quote
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I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do but either walk around or read a book or work on your book, and they all seem helpful. View quote
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My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place. View quote
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Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? View quote
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Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul. View quote
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It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons. (Andrew Sean Greer)
The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be? View quote
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How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding. View quote
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Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep. View quote
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Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why. View quote
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It's funny how the present can change the past. View quote
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Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy. View quote
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A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one. View quote
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I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both grown up in sort of rural parts of the South and were oddballs where they grew up. They were budding intellectuals. View quote
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With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me. View quote
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I do think that Americans do not understand that things are done differently in other parts of the world and that the other ways people do things are equally accurate ways to do things. Someone else just came up with something different. (Andrew Sean Greer)
I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published. View quote
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I never wanted to be a scientist. View quote
Andrew Sean Greer
I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all the plans are for naught. The book has become something else, and I have a nervous breakdown, and then I submit to what the book has become, and I keep going, and that's a terrible and then a great time. View quote
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There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60. View quote
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