Carol Shields Quotes - Page 2

• Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

  Carol Shields

  Quality, Made, Genuine

  Carol Shields (1996). “Small Ceremonies”, G K Hall & Company

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• I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

  Carol Shields

  Mother, Thinking, Discovery

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• These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

  Carol Shields

  Loneliness, Feeling Lonely, Feels

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• I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

  Carol Shields

  People, Concerned

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• I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.

  Carol Shields

  Mother, Children, Unique

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• The silence is perfect, and yet a torment.

  Carol Shields

  Perfect, Silence, Torment

  Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

  Carol Shields

  Selfish, Maturity, Years

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• In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.

  Carol Shields

  Long, Healthy, Healthy Life

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