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Margaret Laurence Quotes

Margaret Laurence quotes

Canadian Novelist July 18, 1926 – January 5, 1987

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So, if this were indeed my Final Hour, these would be my words to you. I would not claim to pass on any secret of life, for there is none, or any wisdom except the passionate plea of caring ... Try to feel, in your heart's core, the reality of others. This is the most painful thing in the world, probably, and the most necessary. In times of personal adversity, know that you are not alone. Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable,... Margaret Laurence
I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it. Margaret Laurence
Everything drifts. Everything is slowly swirling, philosophies tangled with the grocery lists, unreal-real anxieties like rose thorns waiting to tear the uncertain flesh, nonentities of thoughts floating like plankton, green and orange particles, seaweed -- lots of that, dark purple and waving, sharks with fins like cutlasses, herself held underwater by her hair, snared around auburn-rusted anchor chains. Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence quote: "When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just..."
When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs. Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence quote: "Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg."
Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg. Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence quote: "Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after..."
Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to. Margaret Laurence
Is it a mausoleum, and I, the Egyptiab, mummified with pillows and my own flesh, through some oversight enbalmed alive? There must be some mistake. Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence quote: "the infinite capacity of humans to wound one another without..."
the infinite capacity of humans to wound one another without meaning or wanting to Margaret Laurence
How it irks me to have to take her hand, allow her to pull my dress over my head, undo my corsets and strip them off my, and have her see my blue veined swollen flesh and the hairy triangle that still proclaims with lunatic insistence a non-existent womanhood. Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence quote: "Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young."
Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young. Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence quote: "What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside."
What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside. Margaret Laurence

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