Marian Engel Quotes

• I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

  Marian Engel

  Fall, People, Trying

  Marian Engel (1985). “The Tattooed Woman”, Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada

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• All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

  Marian Engel

  Hypocrisy, Intellectual, Lechery

  Marian Engel (1968). “No Clouds of Glory”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.

  Marian Engel

  Beautiful, Pride, Choices

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• There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

  Marian Engel

  Art, Differences, Understanding

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• Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

  Marian Engel

  Drinking, House, Alcohol

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• There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.

  Marian Engel

  Kind, Difficulty, Virgins

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