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Janice Galloway is a Scottish writer known for her unique narrative style and profound insights into everyday life. Her works often focus on the psychological states and social backgrounds of characters, depicting the complexities of human nature through concise and direct language.

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“Friedrich desiderò ardentemente Clara, a prescindere dal suo sesso. Prima ancora di sapere cos’era, chi era, sapeva quello che sarebbe stata: la più grande pianista che lui potesse plasmare”

Passione Donna Famiglia Talento Educazione Schumann Denaro Pianista

Book:Clara

Source: Clara

“Do what you want with life, you don't get another one. Never apologize, never explain. Stay light, stay free. Jealousy kills; it kills whatever it touches.”

Book:Jellyfish

Source: Jellyfish

“Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forgot the truth and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars.”

Book Hard Stuff Quiet Bars Iron Bloody Sonnet Seducing Ethereal Monasteries Veneer Book Learning

Author:Janice Galloway

“I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.”

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Author:Janice Galloway

“No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.”

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Book:The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

Source: The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

“It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone.”

Trouble Asking Listening To Music

Book:The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

Source: The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

“I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets that come through the door, unsolicited mail. None of it lasts long and it doesn't give me answers. Reading too fast is not soothing.”

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Book:The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

Source: The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

“The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the call could come that changes your life. Or someone else's. It makes the same flat, mechanical noise for everyone and gives no clues what's waiting there on the other end of the line. You can never be too careful.”

Thinking Giving Ends Order Waiting Lines Safe Instruments Threat Phones Careful Noise Flats Clue Changing Your Life Intrusion

Book:The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

Source: The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

“You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.”

Thinking Giving Body Running Natural Tears Limits Sitting Dry

Book:The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

Source: The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

“No matter how often I think I can't stand it anymore, I always do. There is no alternative. I don't fall, I don't foam at the mouth, faint, collapse or die. It's the same for all of us. You can't get out of the inside of your own head. Something keeps you going. Something always does.”

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Book:The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

Source: The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel

“Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.”

People Being Afraid

Book:The Trick Is To Keep Breathing

Source: The Trick Is To Keep Breathing

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Born: 1955
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 11

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