Karen Joy Fowler citations (27 citations)

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“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.”

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Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club

Source: The Jane Austen Book Club

“In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“Language does this to our memories—simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see. Make them look and they mind, but you’re the one they hate, because you’re the one that made them look.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.”

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Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club

Source: The Jane Austen Book Club

“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre Sarah Canary

Source: Sarah Canary

“I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin?”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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“When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”

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“Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.”

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Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club

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“You know how everything seems so normal when you’re growing up,” she asked plaintively, “and then comes this moment when you realize your whole family is nuts?”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?"
"Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.”

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Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club

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“In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.”

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“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“No Utopia is Utopia for everyone”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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“The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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“Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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“But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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“You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.”

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Karen Joy Fowler livre We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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Arthur Conan Doyle15

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écrivain japonais None

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