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Annie Proulx
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Annie Proulx
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 22
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Journalist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Screenwriter
Norwich
Connecticut
E. Annie Proulx
E.A. Proulx
Edna Annie Proulx
Edna Ann Proulx
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... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.
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Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.
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If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.
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But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain.
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Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.
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We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
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Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. I'm coming back some day, they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.
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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
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And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.
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It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.
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If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.
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All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.
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There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
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You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
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If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.
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I wish I knew how to quit you.
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What we fear we often rage against.
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It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
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