Harriet Doerr Quotes

• During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.

  Harriet Doerr

  Life, Rivers, Littles

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• One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

  Harriet Doerr

  Memories, Imagination, Age

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• memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.

  Harriet Doerr

  Memories, Bottles, Fit

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• I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it to the work of a stonecutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it.

  Harriet Doerr

  Writing, Phrases, Stones

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

  Harriet Doerr

  Memories, Rain, Squares

  Harriet Doerr (1996). “The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.

  Harriet Doerr

  Time, Regret, Waste

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• The minute he spoke Spanish, I said, "I'm home."

  Harriet Doerr

  Home, Minutes, Spokes

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