Karen Joy Fowler quotes

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human. (Karen Joy Fowler)
In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will. View quote
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I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin? View quote
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The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action. View quote
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Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. View quote
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Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you. View quote
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When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. View quote
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The sunset you see is always better than the one you don't. More stars are always better than less. View quote
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When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. View quote
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Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families. (Karen Joy Fowler)
No Utopia is Utopia for everyone. View quote
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Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness. View quote
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Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking. View quote
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I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either. View quote
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I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it. View quote
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I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery. View quote
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I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me. (Karen Joy Fowler)
You can't imagine the white-hot fury someone who can't sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him. View quote
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Language does this to our memories-simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture. View quote
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You know how everything seems so normal when you're growing up,” she asked plaintively, "and then comes this moment when you realize your whole family is nuts? View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through. View quote
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