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Annie Proulx
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 22
Author
Journalist
Librettist
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Norwich
Connecticut
E. Annie Proulx
E.A. Proulx
Edna Annie Proulx
Edna Ann Proulx
Craftsmanship
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Wide
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Years

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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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All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.
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What we fear we often rage against.
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
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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 am influenced by words and the chewiness of language
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A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.
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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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... 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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I would rather be dead than not read
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I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
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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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...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them
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I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.
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It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.
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If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
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Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.
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If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.
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We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
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In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter.
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