Nancy Hale Quotes

• The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.

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  Artist, Color, Age

  Nancy Hale (1975). “Mary Cassatt”, Doubleday Books

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• Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

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  Gossip, Creative, Creation

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• In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.

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  Acceptance, Order

  Nancy Hale (1957). “Heaven and Hardpan Farm”

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• imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

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  Reality, Order, Imagination

  Nancy Hale (1977). “The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing”, Greenwood Press

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• Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

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  People, Giving, Pay

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• The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

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  Universal

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• What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

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  Inspirational, Men, Imagination

  Nancy Hale (1977). “The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing”, Greenwood Press

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• Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

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  Writing, Speak, Best Work

  Nancy Hale (1977). “The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing”, Greenwood Press

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• The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

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  Lying, Hands, Research

  Nancy Hale (1977). “The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing”, Greenwood Press

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• If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

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  Civilization, Way, Achieve

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• Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

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  Creativity, May, Temples

  Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume

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• To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

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  Doing Nothing, Firsts, Inaction

  Nancy Hale (1957). “Heaven and Hardpan Farm”

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• After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

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  Mother, Losing Someone, Losing

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• We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

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  Animal, World, Might

  Nancy Hale (1957). “Heaven and Hardpan Farm”

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• Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.

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  World, Fingers, Mines

  Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume

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• The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

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  Dark, Light, Darkness

  Nancy Hale (1957). “Heaven and Hardpan Farm”

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• It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.

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  Trying, Just One, Seems

  Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume

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• one must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.

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  Home, Trying, Natural

  Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume

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