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Catherine Drinker Bowen

"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."

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"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."

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Donna Grant

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

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Donna Grant

"Life is not about getting everything right, as much as it's about working to live right."

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Donna Grant

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

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Donna Grant

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

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Donna Grant

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

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Donna Grant

"Having a job does not mean living."

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Donna Grant

"Life shouldn't be about survival alone but about living."

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Donna Grant

"Life is a reality. Live it with all your heart."

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Donna Grant

"The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all."

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Donna Grant

"One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today."

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older."

Truth

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"Will the reader turn the page?"

Will

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty."

Man

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink."

Biography

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions."

Life

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word."

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind."

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Catherine Drinker Bowen
"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them."

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