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Carol Shields quotes about life

Canadian Author May 16, 1935 – July 16, 2003

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Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing, which is the kindest thing I can say for it. Other are required, other perspectives, but even so our most important ceremonies? birth, love, and death? are secured by whomever and whatever is available. What chance, what caprice! Carol Shields
Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life. Carol Shields
In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will. Carol Shields
Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs? Carol Shields
Carol Shields quote: "Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I..."
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. Carol Shields
Carol Shields quote: "There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and..."
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. Carol Shields

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