My Heart Is Broken
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“She could have lived in comfort, but I doubt if it occurred to her to try.”
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“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.”
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“Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.”
Source: The Collected Stories
“... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.”
Source: A Fairly Good Time: with Green Water, Green Sky
“A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.”
Source: Varieties of Exile
“Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.”
Source: The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories
Source: Paris Stories
“Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.”
Source: The Collected Stories
“I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.”
Source: The Collected Stories
Source: Varieties of Exile
“A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.”
Source: Varieties of Exile