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Famous Mavis Gallant Quotes
“She could have lived in comfort, but I doubt if it occurred to her to try.”
“The older I get the more grateful I am not to be told how everything comes out.”
“My mother has lived every day of her life as if it were preparation for some kind of crisis.”
“Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.”
“... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.”
“A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.”
“Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.”
“Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.”
“I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.”
“A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.”