Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes

• I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.

  Bobbie Ann Mason

  Distance, Ideas, Flying

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• I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.

  Bobbie Ann Mason

  Quiet, Rebellion, Corners

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• One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.

  Bobbie Ann Mason

  Fashion, Stories, Grudge

  Bobbie Ann Mason (2013). “Clear Springs: A Memoir”, p.385, Random House

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• One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.

  Bobbie Ann Mason

  Cat, One Day, Counting

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