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I am rampant with memory.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
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Follow your heart, and you perish.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Friendship
Follow Your Heart
Heart
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Well, you're young. You know a lot you won't know later on.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Knows
Wells
Young
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Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Bless
Lord
Please
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Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Granted
Privacy
Privilege
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As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Environmental
Earth Day
Should
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What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.
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Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Fear
Pride
Wilderness
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Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Animal
Roaring
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When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Jobs
Mean Girls
Writing
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Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Bloody
Doughnut
Jelly
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In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Funny
Family
Im Sorry
Sarcastic
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The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Bears
Blessing
Grief
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If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Children
My Children
Written
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Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Believe
I Believe
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Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Education
Vacation
Holiday
Littles
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Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Brotherhood
Diversity
Unique
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Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Men
Grief
Joy
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I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around and wait until inspiration strikes, but neither can you force into being something that isn't there.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Able
Inspiration
Waiting
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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 / Novelist
Accepting
Believe
Can't Change
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Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Gold
Heaven
Real
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I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and would know how to cope with everything and my kids would rise up and call me blessed. Now I see that whatever I'm like, I'm pretty well stuck with it for life. Hell of a revelation that turned out to be.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Kids
Wise
Blessed
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It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.
Margaret Laurence / Novelist
Believe
Party
Struggle
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