The Diviners
A source page for quotes linked to Margaret Laurence.
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“Look ahead into the past, and back into the future, until the silence.”
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Source: The Stone Angel
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“Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.”
Source: Long Drums and Cannons
Source: A Place to stand on: essays by and about Margaret Laurence
Source: The Stone Angel
Source: Dance on the earth: a memoir
“Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.”
Source: The Stone Angel
Source: Dance on the earth: a memoir
“Well, you're young. You know a lot you won't know later on.”
“Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.”
“What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.”
Source: The Fire-Dwellers
Source: The Stone Angel
Source: A Jest of God
“In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.”
Source: A Bird in the House: Stories
“As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.”
“When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”
“The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.”
Source: The Stone Angel
“Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.”
Source: Dance on the earth: a memoir
“Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?”
Source: The Diviners