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Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

Annie Proulx

Men, Experts, Affair

Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.

Annie Proulx

Humble, Godly, Cowboy

Annie Proulx (2007). “That Old Ace in the Hole”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.

Annie Proulx

Heart, Broken, Fit

Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm a brown egg. He took them. They were cold. He thought it a tender, wonderful thing to do. She had given him something, the eggs, after all, only a symbol, but they had come from her hands as a gift. To him. It didn't matter that he'd bought them himself at the supermarket the day before. He imagined she understood him, that she had to love him to know that it was the outstreched hands, the giving, that mattered.

Annie Proulx

Hands, Eggs, Giving

"The Shipping News". Book by Annie Proulx, 1993.

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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

Annie Proulx

Flames, Crafts, Metamorphosis

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In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.

Annie Proulx

House, Insightful, Story Writers

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It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

Annie Proulx

Years, Losing Someone, Nephew

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A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

Annie Proulx

Fall, Coins, May

Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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I would rather be dead than not read

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Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?

Annie Proulx

Sweet, Heart, Eye

Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.

Annie Proulx

Sweet, Memories, Real

Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.

Annie Proulx

Light, Darkness, Ordinary

Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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It's easier to die if others around you are dying.

Annie Proulx

Dying, Easier, Dies

Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.

Annie Proulx

Believe, Space, Brokeback Mountain

Annie Proulx (1999). “Close Range: Wyoming Stories”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

Annie Proulx

Reading, Night, Laughing

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and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off.

Annie Proulx

Distance, Hands, Opposites

Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them

Annie Proulx

Brokeback Mountain, Knows, Ifs

Annie Proulx (2007). “Close Range: Wyoming Stories”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain.

Annie Proulx

Writing, Brain, Let It Go

Annie Proulx (2007). “That Old Ace in the Hole”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.

Annie Proulx

Silence, Unfolding, Wounded

Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

Annie Proulx

Smart, Independent, Years

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