E. Annie Proulx Quotes

Edna Ann Proulx

E. Annie Proulx is an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. She has written most frequently as Annie Proulx but has also used the names E. Annie Proulx and E.A. Proulx.

“All the complex wires of life were stripped out and he could see the structure of life. Nothing but rock and sea, the tiny figures of humans and animals against them for a brief time.” (E. Annie Proulx Quotes)
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“All the traveling I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.”
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“And he would wake sometimes in grief, sometimes with the old sense of joy and release; the pillow sometimes wet, sometimes the sheets.”
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“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
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“If you can’t fix it, you have to stand it.”
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“It’s easier to die if others around you are dying.”
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“Nothing ended, nothing begun, nothing resolved.”
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“The old forests are going and once they are gone we will have to wait a thousand years or more to see their like. Though nothing will be allowed such a generous measure of time to grow.”
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“The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it.”
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“The tide was still on the ebb in that complex swell and fall of water against land, as though a great heart in the centre of the earth beat but twice a day.”
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“The windows of his house shone in the darkness like squares of melting butter.”
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“The world is a staircase,” hissed the accordion maker in the darkness. “Some go up and some come down. We must ascend.”
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“There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering.”
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“There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can’t fix it you’ve got to stand it.”
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“We face up to awful things because we can’t go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say ‘Yes, it happened, and there’s nothing I can do about it,’ the sooner you can get on with your own life. You’ve got children to bring up. So you’ve got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.”
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“We’re all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.”
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“You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and then they have to sink. The water is a dark flower and a fisherman is a bee in the heart of her.”
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“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
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“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
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