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

Mots clés 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

Mots clés 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

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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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