Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Carol Shields


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Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

Carol Shields

Stichwörter: humor living aging



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Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Carol Shields


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Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Carol Shields

Stichwörter: reading books readers bibliophiles subtlety



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Cuando llegue el momento de mi lobotomía, ése es uno de los incidentes sociales que me propongo eliminar.

Carol Shields


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Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Carol Shields


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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read, and certainly not aloud.

Carol Shields


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...she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know.

Carol Shields

Stichwörter: biography



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A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it.  It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.

Carol Shields


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We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

Carol Shields


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