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Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.

Anne Fortier

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Anne Fortier
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Novelist
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Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.
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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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And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.
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...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.
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Only weak men want women to be weak.
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It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.
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You owe me nothing, but I want everything.
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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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Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry I was not so sure about the reason part.
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She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. Once the last chord of the last piece had died out, she had stood up and opened the French doors to the garden outside, perhaps waiting to breathe in the honeysuckle one more time.
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I am sorry I didn’t tell you the truth before. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to. You kept asking about Romeo and what he was really like. I was hoping that”—he smiled wistfully—“you would recognize me.
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Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.
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When the old men fight, the young people die.
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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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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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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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In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
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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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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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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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