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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

Anne Fortier

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Anne Fortier
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Novelist
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Sorrow
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Love
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Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.
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I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.
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Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?
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In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
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And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.
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Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
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You owe me nothing, but I want everything.
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For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf shirts, to Umberto, were the garments of men who have no virtues left, not even shame.
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...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.
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By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.
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We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.
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Romeo was cute …” “Cute?” Alessandro rolled his eyes. “What kind of man is cute?” “… and an excellent dancer …” “Romeo had feet of lead! He said so himself!” “… but most importantly,” I concluded, “he had nice hands!
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I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.
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I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
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While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.
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.... death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
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A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.
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Only weak men want women to be weak.
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When the old men fight, the young people die.
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...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.
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