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Carol Shields quotes

Canadian Author May 16, 1935 – July 16, 2003

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nothing she didor saidwas quitewhat she meantbut still her lifecould be called a monumentshaped in a slantof available lightand set to the movementof possible music Carol Shields
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
So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other. Carol Shields
Carol Shields quote: "Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed..."
Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . . Carol Shields
Carol Shields quote: "Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground."
Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. Carol Shields
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
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing. Carol Shields
Carol Shields quote: "A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it? It leaves..."
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it? It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. Carol Shields
This last year she has been in danger of becoming an eccentric or else one of those persons who does not bother to put a saucer under her cup. Carol Shields
Carol Shields quote: "This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting..."
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. Carol Shields
Carol Shields quote: "What I'd like is a lobotomy, a clean job, the top of my head..."
What I'd like is a lobotomy, a clean job, the top of my head neatly sawn off and designated contents removed. Carol Shields
Carol Shields quote: "I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people."
I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people. Carol Shields
Things begin, things end. Just when we seem to arrive at a quiet place, we are swept up, suddenly, between the body's smoothe, functioning predictability, and the need for disruption. We do irrational things, outrageous things. Or else something will come along and intervene, an unimaginable foe. Carol Shields
Nothing matters except for the harvest, the gathering in, the adding up, the bringing together, the whole story, the way it happens and happens and goes on happening.(from "Collision") Carol Shields
Carol Shields quote: "Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of..."
Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk. Carol Shields

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