Carol Shields citations (7 citations)

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Carol Shields: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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Carol Shields

Source: The Republic of Love

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”

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Carol Shields

“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”

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Carol Shields Unless

Source: Unless

“nothing she did
or said

was quite
what she meant

but still her life
could be called a monument

shaped in a slant
of available light

and set to the movement
of possible music”

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Carol Shields

“There are chapters in every life which are seldom read, and certainly not aloud.”

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Carol Shields The Stone Diaries

Source: The Stone Diaries

“Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.”

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Carol Shields The Stone Diaries

Source: The Stone Diaries

“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.”

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Carol Shields Unless

Source: Unless

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